Dave Roman is an associate editor at Nickelodeon Magazine, where he's worked since 1998 on various comic projects including special issues dedicated to SpongeBob, Avatar: The Last Airbender, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and more.

He draws the webcomic series Astronaut Elementary and is partially responsible for several books including Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery , Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden, and Teen Boat. He's had stories appear in Flight volumes 3, 4, & 5, Bizarro World; and is one of the co-founders of the all-ages comic site Lunchbox Funnies; the videogame art site Life Meter Comics; and the artist collective The Comics Bakery.

Dave is currently collaborating with his wife Raina Telgemeier on a series of manga-inspired X-Men graphic novels for Del Rey. He is also a Harvey Award nominee, and an Ignatz and Web Cartoonists' Choice award winner.

email: yaytime@gmail.com

Published Works:

Nickelodeon Magazine
Associate editor, comics associate, writer.

Nick Mag Presents...
Comics editor for all of the Nick Mag special issues including: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Spongebob, Fairly Odd Parents, Rugrats, Wild Thornberrys, Rocket Power, A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Avatar the Last Airbender DVD Comics
Editor for the 8 separate mini-comics packaged with the Book 2: Earth and Book 3: Fire single disk DVDs.

X-Men Shoujo Manga
Graphic Novel series published by Del Rey Manga.
Co-writer

Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery
Graphic Novel published by Slave Labor Graphics.
Writer and co-artist.

Astronaut Elementary
Web-comic and Mini-comic series.
Debuted online at GirlAMatic.com and continues to serialize at astronautelementary.com and in mini-comic collections.
Writer and artist

Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden
Graphic Novel series published by AiT/Planet Lar.
Originally serialized as Quicken Forbidden and self-published by Cryptic Press.
Writer and co-creator.

Teen Boat
Mini-comic series self-published by Cryptic Press. Writer, co-creator, publisher

Flight 5
Comics Anthology published by Villard Books
Writer/artist of "The Chosen Ones Club"

Flight 4
Comics Anthology published by Villard Books
Writer/artist of "It's Dangerous to Sleep"

Flight 3
Comics Anthology published by Villard Books and Ballantine.
Writer/artist of "The Great Bunny Migration"

Lifemeter Comics An online gallery of videogame inspired art and comics by a wide range of artists. Co-founder, editor

Bizarro World (Published by DC Comics) "JLA: Bring Your Kids to Work Day" writer

Character Design for Graphic Novels
Educational text-book published by Focal Press (March 30, 2007)
Includes excerpts and spotlight on my Astronaut Elementary comics.

Webcomics: Tools and Techniques for Digital Cartooning
Educational book published by Barron''s Educational Series (June 15, 2005)
Includes excerpts of my Astronaut Elementary and Teen Boat comics.

Dexters Laboratory Comics (Published by DC Comics) writer for the following stories:
"Beast Master", "What = Funny?", "Dexter's New Clothes", & "Chicken Scratch" (which was adapted into a an animated short).

Comics Festival
Comic book published by The Beguiling for Free Comic Book Day 2005.
Writer/artist for "Jax Epoch and the Quick Milkshake".

9-11: Emergency Relief
Benefit anthology published by Alternative Comics.
Writer/artist of

Go Tortoise Boy Go!
Mini-comic self published by Cryptic Press.
Writer/artist

Keep Warm
Mini-comic self-published by Cryptic Press.

Not My Small Diary #11 #12. & #13
Comics anthologies published by Delain Derry Green.
"Things I did as a Kid", "The Milk Toast", & "Best Job in the World". Writer/artist

Imagination Rocket
Educational comics anthology published by Behemoth Books.
Writer for "Done With Science"

Broad Appeal (Published by Friends of Lulu) editor, writer

Storytime
Comics anthology published by Friends of Lulu.
Writer/Artist for "The Clockwork Family"

Comics Are Dead
Comics Anthology published by Slap Happy Comics in 1999. Writer/Artist of short story. SPX 99: The Comic
Comics anthology published by The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Writer of "The Dreams of Jax Epoch"

Son of Rampage Comics Anthology published by Slap Happy Comics in 1998.
Writer of "Remotely Controlled".

Substance Effect
Comics Anthology published by Scott Morse/Crazyfish.
Writer of "Junk Culture".