Charles Kochman

Cindy Seip

Charles Kochman is the editorial director of Abrams ComicArts and editor of the #1 bestselling series Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. He has edited several hundred books for all age groups, including picture books; middle-grade novels; retrospectives on Rube Goldberg, Charles M. Schulz, Maurice Sendak, and William Steig; definitive monographs; collections with George Booth, Robert Crumb, and Art Spiegelman; and graphic novels including the widely acclaimed Mom’s Cancer by writer and cartoonist Brian Fies.