https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Owen
James A. Owen is an American comic book illustrator,
publisher and writer. He is known for his creatorowned comic book series Starchild and as the author
of The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica novel
series, that began with Here, There Be Dragons in 2006.
Career
Owen
self-published
the
black-andwhite fantasy series Starchild under his Taliesin Press
imprint in the 1990s. Adopting the name Coppervale Press
for Starchild: Crossroads, he gave up self-publishing in
1997 for Starchild: Mythopolis, five issues of which were
published by Image Comics.[1] Owen returned to selfpublishing, compiling a volume of Starchild reprints via a
Kickstarter campaign in 2015.[2]
Later, Owen reinvented himself as a novelist, creating a
fantasy series titled Mythworld for a German publishing
company. The books were later reprinted in the United
States by Baen.[3]
In 2003, Coppervale Press relaunched two newsstand style
magazines, the fine arts-oriented International Studio and
the fiction periodical Argosy, but both magazines ceased
publication in 2004 after only a few issues. In 2009, a
satirical short story by Jeff VanDermeer entitled "Errata"
about Argosy and its demise was published by Tor
Books.[4]
In 2006 his novel Here, There Be Dragons was published,
the first book in The Chronicles of the Imaginarium
Geographica series.[5] The book had multiple printings,
and was published around the world in more than twenty
languages. It was followed by The Search for the Red
Dragon and The Indigo King in 2008, The Shadow
Dragons in 2009, The Dragon's Apprentice 2010, The
Dragons of Winter in 2012, and "The First Dragon" in
2013.[6]
After releasing a non-fiction ebook of personal stories, Drawing Out The Dragons,
Coppervale Press, in early 2011, Owen had a successful Kickstarter project raising funds to
create a limited first edition paperback and hard cover, as well as an audio version of the
ebook.[7]
Owen announced The Meditations trilogy was picked up by Shadow Mountain
Publishing[8] but as of 2021, his work was out of print at the company.