Chris Staros

[2] He officially entered the comics field in 1994 with The Staros Report, an annual fanzine dedicated to promoting "the most intelligent and innovative" graphic novels in the business.

He published four editions of The Staros Report, during which time he also became the American art and distribution agent for cartoonists Eddie Campbell and Gary Spencer Millidge.

[4] In 2000 Staros delivered the keynote speech at the Ignatz Awards, arguing that the industry must focus more on content, and that more works of the merit of Moore and Campbell's From Hell and Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan would help the public re-evaluate their perceptions of the medium.

Since the release of his first fanzine, The Staros Report, in 1994, and co-founding Top Shelf Productions in 1997, Chris has published over 400 graphic novels that have helped the medium of comics thrive as a well-rounded and literary art form.

Most notably, the March trilogy by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell; They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker; From Hell by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell; Lost Girls by Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill; Blankets by Craig Thompson; Essex County and The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire; Super Spy by Matt Kindt; Surfside Girls by Kim Dwinell; Monster on the Hill by Rob Harrell; Red Panda & Moon Bear by Jarod Roselló; Clumsy and Unlikely by Jeffrey Brown; Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer; and God is Disappointed in You by Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler—all of which have garnered accolades from the likes of CNN, NPR, Time, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, and the New York Times (with two having been made into major motion pictures).