Corinna Bechko is a Hugo- and Eisner-nominated New York Times bestselling author. Her work includes Invisible Republic, Star Wars: Legacy, Savage Hulk, Angel, Once Upon a Time, Court of the Dead, Green Lantern: Earth One, and The Expanse. Bechko lives in Los Angeles, where she works with dinosaurs and rescues parrots.

Melissa Flores has written, developed, and produced diverse and inclusive entertainment in all genres, including television (Power Rangers, Glitter Force), feature films (Saban’s Power Rangers), narrative podcasts, digital films, publishing, live events, and gaming (The Unleashed, Power Rangers: Battle For the Grid). She’s developed upcoming projects for Stray Kite Studios, Dark Slope, MGA, and Picture Start, among others. A rising-star comic book writer, Flores has written for Marvel, Image Comics, BOOM! Studios, and Oni Press on such titles as her own creator-owned series The Dead Lucky, as well as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Radiant Pink, Spider-Gwen: Smash, Biker Mice from Mars, and more. Flores also voices the characters Kat Ranger and Gia Moran in Power Rangers: Battle For the Grid, and lives in Los Angeles with her girlfriend and a full house of two cats and two dogs.

Ryan Haddock is the writer and co-creator of the award-winning graphic novel The Brothers Flick: The Impossible Doors. He has wanted to write stories since he was six years old. Sometimes the stories have pictures, and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they're in books, and sometimes they just live in his head. He tries to put the good ones in books. A former gifted kid and a frequent sufferer of imposter syndrome, Ryan lives with his family in a charming mid-sized city known for a jingle about a train.

Anthony Mauro is a graduate from San Francisco State University with a BFA in Creative Writing. He wrote the self-published graphic novel Salvation and contributed to–and co-edited–the small self-published comics anthology Hotdog Water: A Comix Anthology. His current work includes co-writing the popular indie series Skull Maskerade. He resides in Portland, Oregon.

Maria Ingrande Mora (they/she) is the acclaimed author of The Immeasurable Depth of You, an Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award finalist. Their YA debut, Fragile Remedy, was selected as Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Their graphic novel series, Ranger Academy, featured one of the first nonbinary characters in the Power Rangers universe. Their forthcoming young adult fantasy, A Wild Radiance, will be released January 2026. A graduate of the University of Florida, Mora lives in St. Petersburg with three cats and two teenagers.

Greg Pak is an award-winning Korean American writer and director best known for writing over six hundred comic books, including series like Planet Hulk, Darth Vader, Mech Cadet Yu, and Ronin Island and Sam Wilson: Captain America (with Evan Narcisse) for Marvel Comics and Lawful for BOOM! Studios. His non-comics work includes the feature film Robot Stories, the children’s book The Princess Who Saved Herself, the illustrated poetry book I Belong to You / Motherland, and the how-to book/memoirs Cooking Will Break Your Heart and 35mm Love Letter.

Amy Roy was born and raised in Philadelphia. She made her directorial debut at age ten, helming the neighborhood’s annual Christmas pageant. There were mandatory rehearsals, a script revision to the main character’s birth and hot chocolate to keep the talent happy. Too scared to try and become a real artist, Amy graduated from Penn State and become a copywriter, working in the ad industry for over ten years. After years of unhappiness, Amy made the leap and went back to film school in Vancouver, starting her life all over again. She moved to L.A. a year later, and has been working in the industry ever since, as an assistant to various writers and directors. Today, she works for the Donners' Company, and considers it a great honor to work with Richard Donner and Lauren Shuler Donner. Recently, she wrote four issues of the Smooth Criminals comic book series for Boom! Entertainment. She wrote and produced the short, Rent Control, which was screened at over a dozen film festivals, including the DC Independent, winning the audience award at three. She produced the short Of Darkness, accepted to over 100 horror festivals. The Lonely Store marks her (official) directorial debut.

Andrew Wheeler is a Toronto–based author born and raised in the south of England. His work includes the globetrotting heist comic Cat Fight, the occult noir Sins of the Black Flamingo, feminist fantasy comic Another Castle, and queer sports comedy Love and War. He is the author of the official Dungeons & Dragons cocktail book Puncheons & Flagons, co-author of the Dungeons & Dragons Young Adventurers Guides, and a contributor to the groundbreaking DC Pride and Marvel Voices: Pride anthologies.

Sebastián Cabrol is a comic artist and illustrator. He has worked with BOOM! Studios (The Seasons Have Teeth) Dark Horse (Hungry Ghosts), Marvel (Maestro, Falcon, The Avengers) and Valiant (The Darques, Shadowman, XO-Manowar) and as a cover artist and interior illustrator for several publishers. He is also a frequent artist of Magic: The Gathering cards.

Daniel Gete set aside his pursuit of a degree in architecture to follow his true love: comics! He holds an Illustration and Animation Degree from Escuela Superior de Dibujo Profesional (ESDIP) in Madrid. After working as a graphic designer for Xplane, and as an illustrator in video game development, Daniel received his first assignment as an artist for Avatar Press on the Absolution: Rubicon limited series. He also pencilled the web series Crossed: Dead or Alive written by Garth Ennis as well as Uber and Uber: Invasion by Kieron Gillen.

Lukas Ketner grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, eventually moving to Portland, Oregon in 2000. He is the artist and cocreator of Witch Doctor, the launch title for Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman's Skybound imprint at Image Comics. Other work includes stories for Dark Horse’s Creepy Comics and Supersized: Strange Tales from a Fast-Food Culture, along with covers for IDW's Hellraiser title. His illustration work varies from his work in comics to editorial illustrations for magazines and alt-weeklies to motorcycle helmet artwork for Icon Motosports. He was a 2009 nominee for the Russ Manning Award and has twice won entry into the Communication Arts Illustration Annual for his album artwork for the band the Builders and the Butchers.

Kano is the pseudonym of Spanish comic book artist Jose Ángel Cano López. Kano began his career at the age of thirteen, editing Spanish-language comics fanzines. At fifteen, he was already doing layouts and design work for Planeta-DeAgostini. Kano is a founding member of the Spanish magazine about comics, Krazy Comics, as well as the Phoenix Studio, which provided design, illustration, and publishing services and was eventually merged with Camaleón Ediciones, a publishing house that Kano worked for in his early days. He has worked for both DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He worked on a long run of Action Comics including the “Emperor Joker” storyline, as well as Gotham Central and Swamp Thing. He worked on Daredevil, Iron Fist, Man Thing, and Beta Ray Bill Godhunter for Marvel, as well as others.

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.

Fabiana Mascolo is a freelance comic book artist based in Rome. Upon graduating top of her class in 2015, she started working in the comics industry both as a penciler and colorist. Over the years, she has worked for companies such as BOOM! Studios, Feltrinelli, and Edizioni BD. In 2019 she started her collaboration with Scout Comics for the miniseries Yasmeen, written by Saif A. Ahmed.

Andrea Mutti began drawing comics in his native Italy during the early 1990s collaborating with various European publishers on such series as DNAction (Xenia Edizioni), Lazarus Ledd and Nathan Never (both for Star Comics). In 2001, he landed in the U.S. market drawing acclaimed series such as The Executor and DMZ for DC/Vertigo, various Iron Man series for Marvel and G.I. Joe Origins for IDW, Top Cow, Image, Dark Horse, Vault, Humanoids, Dynamite, MadCave, The Lab, among many others.

Malachi Ward is an illustrator, cartoonist, and writer working in Los Angeles. He has worked in Background Design and Visual Development for Green Street, Netflix and Titmouse on shows like Centaur World, Captain Fall, Exploding Kittens, Jentry Chau Vs. The Underworld, and others. He is also the cartoonist behind Black Hammer: The End, written by Jeff Lemire, and the co-creator of the graphic novels Ancestor and Expansion with Matt Sheean from Image Comics and AdHouse Books. Malachi has done many covers for various Star Trek titles, including the Lore War miniseries from IDW. Malachi’s illustration work includes drawings for The New Yorker, Wired, Craft Records, Secretly Canadian, SpectreVision, New Beverly Cinema, and The New York Times.

Kelly Williams has been making comics since Satan was an angel. After reading Kelly's first comic, Satan fell from heaven to a comic shop in Iowa that he has run ever since. The shop only stocks comics by Kelly, including Skeeters, Eerie, and his horror-anthology The Dark.