Rich Handley has written and edited various articles, essays, comics, and stories for the official Star Wars franchise. He was an assistant editor and contributing writer on IDW's three-volume hardcover series reprinting the entire L.A. Times Star Wars newspaper strips. He also contributed to numerous volumes of the Star Wars Fact Files, and he co-edited three essay anthologies for Sequart: A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Exploring Star Wars Comics; A Long Time Ago: Exploring the Star Wars Cinematic Universe; and A More Civilized Age: Exploring the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
Handley has written, edited, or contributed to 160 books to date, including 100 volumes of Eaglemoss's Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection, for such publishers as DC Comics, IDW, BOOM! Studios, Topps, Dark Horse, Titan Books, and more. He currently writes articles and prose fiction for Paramount's Star Trek Explorer magazine. Rich is considered an expert historian regarding Star Trek, Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, Swamp Thing, Watchmen, and Back to the Future, and he has written about other franchises as well, including Battlestar Galactica, Hellblazer, Stargate, Dark Shadows, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Red Dwarf, Blade Runner, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batman, Godzilla, and more.