About me
Nathan Vernon Madison is an Eisner Award-nominated historian and author based in Richmond, Virginia. His first book, Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960 (McFarland, 2013 - a revision of his M.A. thesis), was nominated in 2014 for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for best scholarly work about comics; the following year Comics Through Time – A History of Icons, Idols and Ideas (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2014), a four-volume encyclopedia for which Madison wrote several articles concerning anime, science fiction, the career of Stan Lee, and more, was nominated for best book about comics. He was also an historical consultant for the 2018 AMC series The Story of Science Fiction, with James Cameron, as well as for other documenatries aired on PBS, C-SPAN, and the BBC. In addition to writing about popular culture history, Madison also works in industrial and local history, serving as an historical consultant to several Richmond museums, and writing, in 2015, his first book of industrial history, Tredegar Iron Works – Richmond’s Foundry on the James (History Press, 2015). His next work is a piece on the history of pulp science fiction in Routledge's Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine (Routledge, 2022); currently, he is collecting contributors for an edited work focused on the history of anime fandom in America, as well as another work on local industry, the Richmond Locomotive Works. He is also co-editor of the Pulp Magazines Project, a Mellon Foundation-funded online, digital repository of literary magazines, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.