Hi! My name is Ben Coleman and I'm a writer originally from and currently residing in Portland, Oregon. I'm the co-writer of The Long Con from Oni Press and Simon & Schuster, a critically acclaimed 2 volume graphic novel that asks the increasingly relevant question "what if the world ended in the middle of a giant pop culture convention?" Read more about it here!
I'm a feature writer and film critic whose work has appeared in the Portland Mercury, Portland Monthly, Comics Beat.com, and Star Trek.com. I've covered everything from attending a Shrek-themed rave on Halloween to every single corn maze in the Portland Metro area to Oregon's Secret Laserdisc King to a horror film festival on top of a mountain (and those are just some of my favorites). I've also written articles on the Reuben sandwich, escape rooms, video games, and occasional opera. Basically if humanity has invented a form of entertainment I've wrangled a press pass to get into it.
I've also written sketch comedy for Live Wire Radio (the nationally syndicated public radio variety show that *isn't* A Prairie Home Companion), the Portland 48 Hour Film Project, and nerd music icons The Doubeclicks, as well as local theater companies Action/Adventure Theatre and Atomic Arts, the latter of which produced wildly popular Trek in the Park theatrical adaptation of classic Trek episodes (where I played such beloved Trek personalities as Helmsman Hadley, the duplicitous Arne Darvin, and Guard #2).