Samuel Sattin is the best-selling author of Scholastic’s bestselling UNICO series, created in collaboration with Tezuka Productions and the Eisner Award-winning artist team Gurihiru. He also adapted Cartoon Saloon’s Academy Award-nominated Irish Folklore Trilogy into acclaimed graphic novels, authored the Eisner-nominated BUZZING, and is spearheading five new reimagined series for Scholastic/Graphix based on original stories by Osamu Tezuka, the "God of Manga."

He graduated with an MFA in comics from the California College of the Arts, and he and his wife reside in Tokyo, Japan.