Derek M Ballard is, first and foremost, a single parent of three kids in Gainesville, Florida. Sometimes after he takes the kids to school and cooks dinner, he’s lucky enough to get work on cartoons for Cartoon Network, Netflix, or HBO. Most recently he was the lead background designer on Mystery Cuddlers for Adult Swim. His book Cartoonshow from Oni Press was selected by the LA Times as one of their top five graphic novels of 2023. But mostly he’s just a plain old dad, tbh.

Nick Winn is a comic artist/animator living in Los Angeles, California, with his wife, his brother and their tiny dog, Drizzy Bizzy. He loves writing and drawing comics about love, longing, faith, and all things sci-fi. Video game music gets him working, but bossa nova winds him down.

Beck Kubrick is a writer, cartoonist from Manchester, UK. Their work has been described as “Sylvia Plath meets Peanuts” (Bond, 2023) and are known for their “dark humor and knowing wit” (Oliver, 2023). Their most recent short, Don';t Worry, I Die at the End, was voted Best One Shot in Broken Frontier';s 2023 awards. Beck';s self published debut, Coby, Alone was just shy of 1,000 percent funded via Kickstarter and received nominations for the MICE shorts award and Broken Pencil';s comic awards. They have worked with Mad Cave Studios, Cartoon Network, and Oni Press. Their upcoming work includes two unannounced graphic novels. In their free time, they like thinking about the apocalypse.