13 Facts About Jess Nevins

Jess Nevins was born on 1966 and is an American author and research librarian best known for annotated guides and encyclopedias covering Victoriana, comic books, genre fiction and pulp fiction.

Jess Nevins has been a recipient and finalist for a number of honors, including the World Fantasy, Sidewise, and Locus Awards.

Jess Nevins received his Master of Library and Information Science from Simmons College in 1996 and has previously worked as a research librarian at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas and at the University of California at Riverside.

Jess Nevins is currently employed as a reference librarian at Lone Star College-Tomball.

Jess Nevins has annotated a number of comic books, starting with several Elseworlds published by DC Comics including Kingdom Come and JLA: The Nail.

Jess Nevins has annotated many of Alan Moore's comics, including spending four years creating notes for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

In-between volumes of LoEG, Jess Nevins has tackled Moore and Gene Ha's Top Ten.

Jess Nevins subsequently provided annotations on Moore and Ha's 2005 Top Ten graphic novel The Forty-Niners and Paul Di Filippo and Jerry Ordway's 2005 sequel miniseries Beyond the Farthest Precinct.

Jess Nevins annotated Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert's 2003 mini-series 1602 from Marvel Comics.

Jess Nevins initially compiled several reference guides on his website including The Golden Age Heroes Directory, the Pulp and Adventure Heroes Directory, and Fantastic, Mysterious, and Adventurous Victoriana.

Jess Nevins later expanded some of these online resources into print, including in The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana.

Jess Nevins's books have been released by Praeger Publishing, Flame Tree Publishing, and MonkeyBrain while he still self-publishes some titles, such as The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes.

Jess Nevins created a companion superhero reference work, the Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes released by High Rock Press.