Marie Javins is a writer, comic book creator, traveler, and blogger who alternates between roaming the planet by public bus, overseeing a line of comics and graphic novels for DC Comics, and writing books entirely unrelated to her day job. In 2001, she circumnavigated the world by surface transport live on MariesWorldTour.com. In 2011, she did it again, but in reverse, this time allowing herself the use of airplanes.

Javins has written six books, coauthored two more, and updated another. She has also contributed to several anthologies and travel websites. Her Wander Woman blog appeared every Sunday on the UK’s Wanderlust magazine’s website for two years.

Known for her acclaimed work as an editor and colorist at Marvel Comics during the nineties, Javins has also edited for Scholastic, Radical, and colored Disney comic books for Gemstone Comics. She’s been involved in several independent publishing ventures and taught digital coloring at New York’s School of Visual Arts. Javins is a partner in Botfriend, a graphic novel packaging partnership with writer/editor Stuart Moore, who oversaw Marvel’s prose adaptation line she coedited from 2012-2015. From 2006-2013, she was in charge of THE 99 comic book series for a Kuwait-based media company.

Originally from Northern Virginia and currently living in Los Angeles, Javins considers herself a New Yorker-in-exile but has lived in Australia, Barcelona, Uganda, Namibia, New Jersey, Kuwait, Cairo, Mexico, and Bali since the last time she called Manhattan home. She can say "hello," "thank you," and "how much" in seven languages.