Eric Stephenson is the Chief Creative Officer and Publisher at Image Comics. As such, he is the head of the company and in charged with cultivating the selective list of titles published by Image each year.

In the decade since Stephenson was first named Publisher, Image Comics has risen from fifth to third-ranked publisher in the industry—maintaining that rank for seven years running. Over that period, Image has received Diamond’s Gem Award for Best Publisher three years in a row from 2014 to 2016. Stephenson individually has been honored with ComicsPRO’s Industry Appreciation Award and was named The Beat’s Industry Person of the Year in 2014, as well as being ranked in the Top 10 on Bleeding Cool’s Power List every year since its inception in 2012. Under Stephenson’s watch, Image has onboarded an unprecedented number of game-changing new series, with Image titles winning nearly three dozen Eisner Awards, across a variety of categories, as well as dominating bestseller lists.

He is the writer/co-creator of the multiple Eisner Award nominated Nowhere Men and of They're Not Like Us.