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Phil Hester has been writing and drawing comics since the dawn of time. He has drawn Kevin Smith's Green Arrow, Mark Millar's Swamp Thing, Robert Kirkman's Ant-Man, and Jeff Lemire's Family Tree, as well as notable runs on Nightwing, The Flash, Batman Beyond, Justice League, and many more. His recent penciling assignments include Kevin Smith's Tales from the Quick Stop, and Gotham City: Year One with Tom King.

Phil has written Wonder Woman, The Darkness, Deathstroke, Mythic, Titans Giant, Swamp Thing Giant, and his co-creations The Coffin with artist Mike Huddleston, and Firebreather with artist Andy Kuhn, which became an Emmy-winning feature on Cartoon Network. 

He wrote and drew The Wretch, which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best New Series. He lives in the sticks.

David Lapham is a cartoonist who began his career in the comic industry at the age of twenty, working at Valiant Comics and learning his craft illustrating and helping to create many original titles, including Shadowman, Harbinger, and Rai. He left Valiant to work at Defiant Comics, where he cocreated Warriors Of Plasm with Jim Shooter. Lapham turned his back on the superhero genre in 1995 to cofound the independent publishing company El Capitan Books, which began publishing Lapham’s comic series Stray Bullets. Lapham has won Eisner Awards for his work on Stray Bullets and Murder Me Dead.

Dan McDaid is a comics writer and artist based in Scotland. He started out writing and drawing adventures for the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who Magazine, and he has since gone on to well-received runs on properties as diverse as Big Trouble in Little China, Judge Dredd, and Firefly. Following acclaimed work on TKO’s pulp blockbuster The Fearsome Dr. Fang, McDaid drew the swashbuckling horror Sea Dogs for Joe Hill's Hill House imprint and DC Comics. His most recent project is the self-penned title, sci-fi mystery DEGA published by Oni Press.

Andrew Carl is an Eisner- and Harvey Award-winning editor, writer, and cat guy. His credits include the Once Upon a Time Machine series (Dark Horse), Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream (Locust Moon), and Comics for Choice (Silver Sprocket).

Chris Condon is the low-down dirty scoundrel behind the ongoing Image Comic series That Texas Blood and its acclaimed Wild West spinoff, The Enfield Gang Massacre, both with artist Jacob Phillips. He waded deep into bayou waters to adapt Barry Gifford's Night People for Oni Press and has not been the same since.

Justin Jordan (Luther Strode, Spread, Dead Body Road) broke into comics with the Image series The Strange Talent of Luther Strode. Since no one threw him back out after said break-in, he has gone on to work for every major comics publisher. He is owned by two cats, George and Tom.

Hagai Palevsky is a comics writer and critic from Israel. His creative credits have appeared in anthologies such as Dagger Dagger and online publications such as PanelxPanel; his criticism has been published in SOLRAD, The Comics Journal, The Gutter Review, and PanelxPanel. When not writing, he can probably be found taking photos of street cats.

Alissa Sallah is a cartoonist (and cosplayer) from small-town Ohio. She edits and contributes to the Bonfire Yearly Anthology (Stratos, Topia, Silk & Metal), has been featured in the Bitch Planet Triple Feature, the Yakuza 6 Song of Life artbook, and was the colorist on the Image comic series Sleepless. Her work can be found at alissasallah.com.