Ann Nocenti is a journalist, writer, editor, and filmmaker. She wrote Ruby Falls (2020) with artist Flavia Biondi and The Seeds (2021) with artist David Aja, both graphic novels for Berger Books/Dark Horse. She also wrote Daredevil, edited X-Men, and created the characters Longshot, Typhoid, Spiral, Mojo, Blackheart, and many more. She was the script editor of The Fifth Night, a screenplay reading series, and the editor of Scenario, a screenwriting magazine. Her series about teaching in Haiti, Goudou Goudou, can be found at hilobrow.com. She continues to work on museums, most recently Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes, a traveling exhibition launched at MoPOP in Seattle.

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.

Greg Smallwood is a comic book artist who made his debut in 2013 with the award-winning series Dream Thief, a supernatural noir he co-created with Bram Stoker Award winner Jai Nitz. In 2014 he began a long run as the artist on Marvel’s Moon Knight, working with Eisner Award winners Brian Wood and Jeff Lemire. For his work on the series, Smallwood won the 2015 Russ Manning Award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 2018 he made his writing debut on the critically acclaimed Vampironica for Archie Comics, and his art on the series won the National Cartoonist Society Comic Books Award that same year. In addition to his interior art, he is also a prolific cover artist, known for his work on The Punisher, The Archies, and EC Comics.

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.

David Rubín is a Spanish cartoonist born in Ourense, Galicia. He’s the visionary creator behind The Hero, co-creator and illustrator on Ether with Matt Kindt, Cosmic Detective with Matt Kindt and Jeff Lemire, Battling Boy: The Rise of Aurora West with Paul Pope and J.T. Petty, Rumble with John Arcudi, the Eisner-nominated Beowulf graphic novel with Santiago García, and Grand Hotel Abyss with Marcos Prior, among others. David lives in a town close to Madrid, Spain, with his family and a dog.