RUSS KICK is known for his groundbreaking and uniquely informative books, which have sold over half a million copies. He is the editor of the three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon: The World's Greatest Literature as Comics and Visuals (Seven Stories Press). NPR said it is “easily the most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory,” School Library Journal called it “startlingly brilliant” and “a masterpiece,” and Booklist declared it “a profound work of art.” The third volume was a New York Times bestseller.
Russ has also edited megaselling anthologies You Are Being Lied To and Everything You Know Is Wrong, and has written several nonfiction books, including the cult classic 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know (all from Disinformation Books). The New York Times has dubbed him “an information archaeologist,” Details magazine described him as “a Renaissance man,” and Utne Reader named him one of its “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”