Editing Matt Wagner (section)

==Early life, family and education==
Matt Wagner's childhood was spent in central [[Pennsylvania]]<ref name= CVprofile>{{cite web| title= Matt Wagner| website= comicvine.gamespot.com |url= https://comicvine.gamespot.com/matt-wagner/4040-8310/ | publisher= | date= | access-date= April 15, 2025}}</ref> (near [[State College, Pennsylvania]])<ref name= Rabinoff>{{cite web| title= 'If They Know What To Expect, Then I’m Just A Can Of Campbell’s Soup': Matt Wagner Reflects on Finishing Mage, Returning to Grendel, and What Comes Next| first= Matt| last= Wagner| interviewer= Zach Rabinoff | date= October 2, 2023 | website= [[The Comics Journal]]; TCJ.com| publisher= | url= https://www.tcj.com/if-they-know-what-to-expect-then-im-just-a-can-of-campbells-soup-matt-wagner-reflects-on-finishing-mage-returning-to-grendel-and-what-comes-next/ | access-date= April 15, 2025}}</ref> and in [[Front Royal, Virginia]].<ref name= FacebookMW>{{cite web| title= Matt Wagner| url= https://www.facebook.com/matt.wagner.3158652/| publisher= Matt Wagner| quote= Studied at Philadelphia College of Art. Went to Warren County High School. Lives in West Linn, Oregon. From Front Royal, Virginia.| website= Facebook.com| date= | access-date= April 15, 2025}}</ref> His mother was an English teacher, and his father (a World War II veteran) worked for a "synthetic fibers corporation".<ref name= Rabinoff />

Even during his grade school years, Wagner knew he wanted to create comic books.<ref name= Rabinoff /> He was in the Class of 1979<ref>{{cite web| url= https://old-friends.co/school.php?s=23335| website= old-friends.co| publisher= | title= Warren County High School, Front Royal, VA| date= | access-date= April 15, 2025}}</ref> at [[Warren County High School (Virginia)|Warren County High School]] in Front Royal, Virginia.<ref name= FacebookMW />  For two years he attended college in Virginia at [[James Madison University]], but he transferred to [[art school]]<ref name= CVprofile /> at [[Philadelphia College of Art]].<ref name= Rabinoff /><ref name= FacebookMW />