Born in 1953 in Oklahoma, R. A. Jones is a Tulsa-based writer and editor who got his start in the comic book business in the 1980’s. During that time, he served as Executive Editor of Elite Comics, wrote for a wide variety of comic book news magazines. He was voted "Favorite Writer About Comics" in a fan poll conducted by the publication Comic Buyer's Guide. He wrote a tremendous amount of comics for Malibu Comics, including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He also wrote for other publishers: Dark Horse, on Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor, DC on Showcase ’95, and Marvel on Weapon X and Wolverine/Captain America. In 2006, R.A. was inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonist Collection Hall of Fame.
Californian comic book artist Ryan Sook has drawn for DC titles like 'Arkham Asylum: Living Hell', 'The Spectre', 'Hawkman' and 'Seven Soldiers of Victory'. For Dark Horse, he has illustrated 'B.P.R.D.', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Angel'. He has worked with Peter David on Marvel's 'X-Factor'. He also drew Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, written by Dave Gibbons.
Mark Vigouroux illustrated MISS: Better Living Through Crime and Dan Wickline’s story “Shelter Me” in Metal Hurlant, which was adapted into an episode of Metal Hurlant Chronicles in 2012. He also was a 2D field artist on the video games Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memoires.
Dan Wickline, born in 1970, is an American comic book writer who has written for the 30 Days of Night and Grimm Fairy Tales franchises as well as the ongoing ShadowHawk and 1001 Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad. He's also written prose for characters such as The Phantom, The Green Hornet and his own creation Lucius Fogg, and a prose piece for an upcoming Avenger novel for Moonstone.
Internationally published as an artist and writer at the age of nineteen, Christian Gossett was one of the first designers hired by Lucasfilm Licensing to retro-design the Star Wars galaxy in 1993. Gossett was only 23 years old when his radical concept drawing of a ‘double-bladed lightsaber’ was approved by George Lucas. Bringing his unique talent to designing characters and weapons for the film and videogame industry, Gossett’s character and concept designs have been sought by such visionaries as George Lucas, Peter Jackson, and Tim Burton for Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. Gossett also directed and co-wrote fan-made Star Trek short film Prelude to Axanar. His graphic novel The Red Star sold over a million units worldwide, was voted among the “Top 100 graphic novels of all time” by Wizard magazine, and is one of the most critically acclaimed independent comics series of the decade. Successfully launched as a PS2 / PS3 game, The Red Star is now in development as a feature film at Warner Brothers.
Geoff Johns is DC Comics’ Chief Creative Officer and an award-winning writer responsible for such crossover epics as “Green Lantern, Blackest Night” and “Infinite Crisis,” and was a key architect behind DC’s The New 52 relaunch. He has written TV episodes of “Smallville,” “Green Arrow” and “Flash” and is Executive Producer on the forthcoming “Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice” movie.
Asked to work in many areas and wanting to try everything, Stéphane Levallois has worked in advertising, film, comics, and video games as a concept artist, graphic designer, art director, writer, and artist.
Francis Tsai was a San Diego-based American comic book artist and illustrator of Taiwanese-Japanese descent. Born in Hawaii in 1967 and raised in Texas, Tsai studied chemistry and eventually architecture. From the late 1990s he worked as a conceptual designer for video games through Presto Studios and later High Moon Studios. Tsai had additionally served as an illustrator for Magic: The Gathering cards, Dungeons&Dragons manuals and ImagineFX magazine. He was active as a cover artist for Marvel Comics from 2007, and produced interior art for Marvel Comics Presents. He drew the comic book mini-series Tracker in 2009, and the mini-series Mercy Thompson: Homecoming, based on the Patricia Briggs novels. Tsai was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in 2010. He lost the ability to move his arms and hands, but he picked up digital painting on his iPhone with his right big toe, and later through eye-gaze technology. Tsai passed away on 23 April 2015.
Jim Macdonald wrote Second Chances, drawn by Jorge Pereira Lucas for Metal Hurlant, which combined futuristic science-fiction with a space and time-traveling creation myth. He was also a system operator for the Science Fiction RoundTable, and wrote "MacDonald's Nightmare Safari" a classic "lost-world" yarn from the men's adventure magazines for Pulp Adventures #18: Model for a Corpse. He lives in New Hampshire and collaborates with his wife Debra Doyle, with whom he writes science fiction and fantasy.
Jerome Opeña is a Filipino comic book artist best known for his numerous collaborations with writer Rick Remender. He was born in the Philippines, and spent most of his childhood in Taiwan, when he was 16, his family moved to the United States, where he has lived ever since. Opeña began work full-time in the industry in 2005 when he met Rick Remender. He drew Avengers: Rage of Ultron, written by Remender, in 2015, with whom he worked on the science-fiction comic series Fear Agent in 2005, amongst many others.
Julien Blondel born in 1975 is a French role-playing game designer and writer, including writing CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect, and a comic book adaptation of legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock's Elric saga together with Robin Recht. In 2006, he founded the company Studio 1D which specializes in the development of licensed games, and he also took part in the creation of a trade union of comic book writers.
Born in Alabama in 1969, Cully Hamner is a member of the Gaijin Studios. He broke into the industry by drawing Green Lantern: Mosaic in 1991. He has created limited series Red with Warren Ellis for DC imprint Homage and Down for Top Cow/Image. He has drawn on critically-acclaimed titles like Batman: Tenses for DC and The Ride for 12 Gauge/Image. Other credits include Firearm, Stormwatch, The Authority, The Titans, Robin, Daredevil, Uncanny X-Men, Spider-Man Unlimited and Star Wars Tales. In 2006, he became the artist of the relaunched Blue Beetle for DC Comics, and with Jim Lee, he co-designed Huntress for the New 52.
Stuart Moore is an American writer and editor of comic books and novels, whose writing includes Civil War, the first in a line of prose novels from Marvel Comics, the multicultural superhero team The 99; the comics adaptation of the bestselling novel Redwall; assorted Star Trek, Transformers, and Stargate projects; and two volumes of the award-winning The Nightmare Factory. At DC Comics, he was a founding editor of the acclaimed Vertigo imprint, where he won the Will Eisner award for Best Editor in 1996 and the Don Thompson Award for Favorite Editor in 1999.
Gérard Parel studied several art forms, including Plastic Arts, Fine Arts and comics. He began a career in music, but after meeting Jean-David Morvan, he turned to creating comics. With Morvan as his writer, Parel launched the 7 Secondes series at Delcourt publishers. He is best known for his luminous, complex Marvel covers of Iron Man, Captain America and S.H.I.E.L.D.
Kurt Busiek has been writing comics professionally since three days before he graduated from college in 1982, when he sold a "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps" backup story that appeared in "Green Lantern #162." Since then, he's worked on just about everything from "Action Comics" to "Zot!," including runs on "Avengers," "Superman," "Conan" and others, and has co-created "Thunderbolts," "The Autumnlands," "Arrowsmith" and more. He's best known for his work on the multiple-award-winning "Marvels" and "Astro City."
After studying film and illustration at the Art Center College of Design, Tommy Lee Edwards moved from Los Angeles to Chapel Hill, NC. Edwards has worked as an artist on comics, children's books, storyboards, and visual development for numerous publishers including Marvel, DC, and Random House; studios like DreamWorks, Lucasfilm, and Warner Bros; and video game creators such as Electronic Arts and 3D Realms. He has worked on comic book titles such as Batman, Daredevil, Star Wars, and The Shield. He is the artist of miniseries like The Question and Mother Panic for DC and on Marvel's Bullet Points, which delves into the origins of superheroes during World War II and Marvel 1985, written by Mark Millar, as well as artwork for Wolverine.
Born in 1957, Nick Burns studied Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba where he worked with filmmaker John Paizs on his early animated cartoons, live-action films, and comic strips in the university newspaper. In 1980, he started work at the Provincial Department of Health Education Graphics, where he met Francophone artist, Real Berard, who asked him to join the Manitoba Snow Sculpture team. In 2003, his script for Snoring was one of six winners chosen to be financed and produced, which premiered at Hot Docs 2003. He was the artist of the Canadian alternative comic book Arctic Comics in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he contributed to the underground magazine Sunburn.
Self-taught Michigan-based artist Guy Davis had his first cartoon strip published in his hometown newspaper during high school. He teamed up with publisher Gary Reed and realized Baker Street, which featured an alternative Sherlock Holmes mythos where Victorian England is populated with punks. He contributed to many Caliber projects such as Sinergy, Book of the Tarot and Caliber Presents. Then he worked with Matt Wagner on the Sandman Mystery Theatre, which featured dreams of a grisly crime. More assignments from the major publishers followed, and Davis' credits include titles like Hellblazer, Batman for DC, Grendel, Aliens, Hellboy spinoff B.P.R.D. for Dark Horse and Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules for Marvel. He continued his own comic The Marquis at Oni Press and drew The Zombies that Ate the World, written by Jerry Frissen for Humanoids. He has also created character sheets and chapter illustrations for White Wolf Games. Davis is a frequent collaborator of filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro.
Jerry Frissen (born Thierry Frissen in Belgium) is an American comic book writer and toy&graphic designer. He is the senior graphic designer at Humanoids as well as the author of several best-selling graphic novels, including the anthology comic book series "Lucha Libre" ("Unfabulous Five," "The Tikitis"), "The Zombies That Ate The World" ("The Z Word") and the new cycle of the internationally acclaimed series "The Metabarons," co-written with Alejandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by Valentin Sécher, Niko Henrichon and Esad Ribic, under the title "The Metabaron." In addition to his work on "The Metabaron," Jerry Frissen is also the author of the forthcoming sci-fi thriller "Exo" (March 2018).
Born in 1950, David Lloyd is a British artist best known for his groundbreaking series V for Vendetta, co-created by Alan Moore. He debuted in 1977, drawing for Halls of Horror, TV Comic and Marvel UK. His first works include the highly acclaimed Night Raven, created with Steve Parkhouse, and another series for Marvel UK featuring Dr. Who. V for Vendetta was first published in the British monthly magazine Warrior, later released as part of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, and a movie adaptation was released in 2006. He has also worked on ESPers, with writer James Hudnall, for Eclipse Comics, Hellblazer with writers Grant Morrison and Jamie Delano, and War Story with Garth Ennis for DC, as well as Global Frequency with Warren Ellis for Wildstorm. He has also created the graphic novel Kickback for French publisher Editions Carabas.
Jim Alexander's publishing debut came as writer of Calhab Justice for Judge Dredd Megazine. He then went on to script Judge Dredd, Pandora, and O'rork and has also written for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and Tokyopop. King's Crown - written by Alexander, drawn by Richard Corben – was adapted as part of the TV series Metal Hurlant Chronicles. He’s currently writing Eden for Dark Horse Presents and Ben 10 for Cartoon Network Action Pack. He is a member of Black Hearted Press, for which he writes many titles.
Born 1940 in Kansas City, studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, graduating in 1965. His first work was published 1968 in the Fanzine Voice of Comicdom. Two years later Corben published his own underground science-fiction comic book entitled Fantagor, after which he worked on the underground magazines Slow Death and Skull, sometimes using the pen name "Gore". In 1971, Corben left the underground comix scene, the same year his first longer fantasy history Rowlf came out. Since the beginning of the seventies Corben drew regularly for the magazines Eerie, Creepy and Vampirella. His big breakthrough took place in 1975 with the establishment of magazine Métal Hurlant in France, leading to his most fruitful work phase, with Bloodstar in 1976, Mutantworld in 1978/79), and Den in 1978, his long-running fantasy series. Currently Corben draws for Marvel, DC and Dark Horse Comics, mostly cover work, but also interior art on series like Ghost Rider for Marvel and Hellboy with Mike Mignola for Dark Horse. In 2005 he worked with Rob Zombie and Steve Niles on the independent comic Bigfoot for IDW Publishing. He also worked on Marvel’s Haunt of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, designed the album cover for Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell, and drew the graphic novel adaptation of The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson for Vertigo.
Ivan Gomez Montero studied fine arts in Paris, and he got his degree in animation at the École Gobelins. He won the first prize in a comic book contest at age 14. In 2000, he began the series Le Prophète de Tadmor with writer Tarek, with whom he also collaborated on the trilogy Cyril et les Ombres du Bois Cendré.