Help Desk: Staff: Sean Kleefeld

Favorite FF Member: Human Torch

Favorite Issue: Fantastic Four #5

Reading List: Alter Ego, Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis, The Black Coat, Black Summer, The Brave and the Bold, Cincinnati Enquirer, Daredevil, Dorothy, Fantastic Four, Gødland, iD_eNTITY, Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters, Local, Lullaby, Maintenance, Newsweek, The Oz-Wonderland Chronicles, The Pirates of Coney Island, Rocketo, She-Hulk, Thunderbolts, Ultimate Spider-Man, Wonderland

Other Credits: Comic Creators on the Fantastic Four, cover scans
Fantastic Four #500, Director's Cut, "Fantastic Four Printography"
, Fantastic Four Extended Cut DVD, memorabilia
Jack Kirby Collector #38, "The Buttons of Doom
Jack Kirby Collector #40-present, "Incidental Iconography"
Jack Kirby Collector #44, "The Legend of the Origin of Galactus"
Alter Ego #68, "Jerry Bails Interview"

Background: I've been reading comics since before I could actually understand the words on the page, and I became a fan of the Fantastic Four with #254 which I received for my eleventh birthday. Growing up in a small town, I had few things to do and few friends to do them with, so I spent a great deal of time reading.

I went to the University of Cincinnati right out of high school and earned a B.S. in graphic design. I spent a couple of years doing traditional print design before I taught myself HTML and how to design for the Internet. After spending a few years doing web design for various companies -- and teaching myself Javascript, MySQL, and PHP -- I became Web Adminsitrator for Wright State University, where I recently completed my M.B.A.

I also do a fair amount of research on various aspects of comic books. I serve on the Board of Directors for the Marvel Chronology Project, write the regular column "Incidental Iconography" for Jack Kirby Collector (starting in #40) and was named Comics' #1 Fan by Diamond Distributors in June 2003.