Award-winning writer and producer Matthew Price currently writes about comics, film, and more at Substack and as a contributing editor to Comic Shop News. He and his wife, Annette, have owned Norman, Oklahoma’s Eisner Award-nominated comic book store, Speeding Bullet Comics, for more than 25 years.

Matt was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He has a degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of Oklahoma and was the features editor at The Oklahoman newspaper from 2009-2018, where he also wrote about comics and geek culture. While working as a journalist, he won awards for leisure reporting, film reviews, blogs, and entertainment features. Matt has also worked for the Dallas Morning News, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Oklahoma Gazette.

Matt has been a journalism instructor for high school and college students and has worked in higher education marketing since 2019.

Matt is the writer of Team America Racing from CSN Press, based on the former Ideal Toys property. He’s the creator of the pulp comic book character The Grave, who has appeared in publications from Speeding Bullet Comics, Okie Comics, and Halloween Head Comics. Matt’s other comic-book work includes the film tie-in comic The Blue Whale with Jessica Garvey; the 90s-style adventure comic Team: Awesome! with Scott Sackett; the sci-fi tale Agent Blue with Don Rosencrans; the ashcan edition of The Oklahoma Spur with Mario Wytch; and the comic-book prequel to The Posthuman Project film with writer Sterling Gates and artist Wytch.

Matt is the co-writer and producer of the Oklahoma-made indie superhero feature film The Posthuman Project, directed by Kyle Roberts. This crowd-funded film, co-written with “Flash” TV writer Gates, celebrated a theatrical release in 2015 and is currently available on DVD and VOD. Matt also wrote the pilot film The Grave, based on his comic book character of the same name, that screened at Comic-Con International in San Diego.

Short films Matt has co-written include the short films Paradox and The Bulleteers with Sean Thiessen;  Heroes of the Realm and Life, Upgraded with Thiessen and Jon Skelly; and Semi-Social and Overdue with Skelly, Songo Adoki and Chris Forbes.