Paul Gravett is a London-based freelance journalist, curator, lecturer, writer, and broadcaster, who has worked in comics publishing and promotion since 1981.

He has curated numerous exhibitions of comic art in Britain and in Europe, including God Save the Comics!, a survey of British comic art at the National Comics and Image Centre in Angoulême, France and the first exhibit devoted to the writer Alan Moore and his collaborators at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi, Belgium. As Project Director of The Cartoon Art Trust in London, he worked on tributes to Carl Giles and Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts, and The 100 British Cartoonists of the Century. His subsequent exhibitions have included retrospectives of Jack Kirby at the Fumetto Festival in Lucerne, and of Tove Jansson and Posy Simmonds at the Belgian Comics Art Museum in Brussels.

Among more recent projects which he has curated or co-curated in London are Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK at The British Library, Comix Creatix: 100 Women Making Comics at House of Illustration, and Queer as Comics at the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.