Neil Kleid

Neil Kleid is the Xeric-award winning graphic novelist who authored Ninety Candles, a graphic novella about life, death, legacy and comics, as well as Brownsville and The Big Kahn for NBM Publishing. He has written for nearly every publisher in the comic book industry, adapted Jack London’s Call of the Wild into sequentials for Penguin Books/Puffin Graphics, did the opposite for Marvel Comics’ seminal Spider-Man storyline “Kraven’s Last Hunt,” and co-authored (with Brian Michael Bendis) Powers: The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim for MacMillan Books, the first-ever original prose novel based on the award-winning comic book; Savor, his new adventure graphic novel (with John Broglia and Frank Reynoso) debuted in 2021 from Dark Horse Comics, and he is co-authoring Screaming for Vengeance, a sci-fi graphic novel based on the acclaimed album by heavy metal icons Judas Priest, alongside Rantz Hoseley, Chris Mitten and Dee Cunniffe for Z2 Comics. Neil is a trained product designer with twenty years of experience, having created experiences for clients such as Girl Scouts, Clarks Shoes and The Topps Company. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, kids, dog, grill.