WAYNE VANSANT has chronicled history in comics format since 1986.  He was the primary artist for Marvel’s acclaimed Vietnam War title, THE ‘NAM, and he has recently returned to historical fiction with his three-volume series KATUSHA, an epic of the eastern front of World War II.  He has researched, written, and illustrated many non-fiction graphic novels such as DAYS OF DARKNESS, BATTRON: THE TROJAN WOMAN, ANTIETAM: THE FIERY TRIAL (under the direction of the National Park Service), BLOCKAGE: THE CIVIL WAR AT SEA and THE WAR IN KOREA.  With writer Dwight Jon Zimmerman he authored the books THE VIETNAM WAR: A GRAPHIC HISTORY and THE HAMMER AND THE ANVIL, the story of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas and the end of slavery in America.  In 2012, Zenith Graphic Histories published NORMANDY: A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF D-DAY, followed in 2013 by GETTYSBURG: THE GRAPHIC HISTORY. GRANT VS LEE and BOMBING NAZI GERMANY, and in 2014 THE RED BARON and THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE.  He is currently at work on finishing the third and final book of KATUSHA.  Vansant is a native of Georgia and served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War era.