Matthew Hansen is an author and artist, and Editor in Chief for Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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/Dabel Brothers Productions

Dabel Brothers Productions

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. A former competitive cyclist, Hansen lives in Toronto, Canada. He began his publishing career as a cycling journalist for several print magazines including Pedal magazine, and on the web for numerous sites including http://www.pedalmag.com, http://canadiancyclist.com and http://autobus.cyclingnews.com .

Following that, Hansen worked as an editor for Dreamwave Productions

Dreamwave Productions

Dreamwave Productions was a Canadian art design studio and comic book publisher founded in 1996 and is best known for their multiple Transformers comic book series...

, publishers of several comic titles including The Transformers, before moving onto Marvel/Dabel Brothers Productions. Hansen maintained a blog

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 for a few years, which he's let go stagnant since 2005.

Currently, Hansen is adapting R.A. Salvatore's novel The Highwayman

The Highwayman (novel)

The Highwayman is a novel by R.A. Salvatore set in his world of Corona, as made famous in his DemonWars Saga. The Highwayman tells the story of a young crippled boy named Bransen Garibond...

for release through Marvel/DB Pro for 2007. Hansen also adapted Ted Dekker

Ted Dekker

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's Circle Trilogy

Circle Trilogy

The Circle Series, formerly known as the Circle Trilogy until the novel Green was released in September 2009, is a set of spiritually inspired novels by Ted Dekker, written mostly in 2004, about a man named Thomas Hunter who, after a head injury, wakes up in an alternate reality every time he goes...

 of novels into graphic novels along with Bob Strachan. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979590000
Hansen created and also wrote the Symmetrics Pro Cycling's promo comic book which is the said to be the first of its kind, published by Arrival Publishing Company. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/sports/story.html?id=cefb7c33-18bf-41f2-974c-1053ab677aed&p=1

In late 2006, Hansen was the only journalist allowed an interview with cyclist Genevieve Jeanson

Geneviève Jeanson

Geneviève Jeanson is a former professional bicycle racer from Quebec, Canada. She won the world junior road and time trial championships in 1999 and the Tour de Snowy in 2000. Later that year she won La Flèche Wallonne World Cup race. She joined the Canadian Olympic team that year...

after her subsequent retirement from the sport.