James A. Owen is a comic book artist, publisher and writer. He was best known in the 1990s for self-publishing the black-and-white fantasy series Starchild under his Coppervale Press imprint. After the turn of the century Owen reinvented himself as a novelist — creating a fantasy series titled Mythworld that has met withmuch success in Germany — and magazine editor. In 2003 Coppervale Press relaunched two classic newsstand magazines, the fine arts-oriented International Studio and the fiction periodical Argosy.
Owen currently lives in Arizona.