Alex Woolfson

Alex Woolfson grew up loving science-fiction and action movies, but never got to see what he really wanted to see -- kick-ass genre stories with real heroes who just happened to be gay. After starting a successful career as a filmmaker in the Bay Area, he soon realized the best way to create the "big-budget" adventure stories he craved would be as full-color comics. He teamed up with illustrator Winona Nelson to create the science-fiction graphic novel, Artifice, and in 2011, started posting pages from it on his Web site, Yaoi 911 Webcomics. In under a year, the webcomic had over 5,000 unique visitors a day, and a Kickstarter campaign, formed to raise money for a print version, blew past its $7000 goal in less than 48 hours. The campaign ultimately took in $36,551 by the end of its 30 day deadline. In addition to writing and publishing comics, Alex enjoys eating other people's cooking, talking to strangers in the far parts of the world and spending weeks at a time on silent meditation retreat. He currently lives in the Bay Area where he is writing scripts for his latest story with gay action heroes, the superhero webcomic The Young Protectors.