Bart Sears has been working in the comics industry since 1986, first as an artist and later as a writer. He's worked for all the major companies and on most of the major characters, including Batman, the Justice League, Spider-Man, Conan, Blade, and the X-Men. He's also written drawing tutorials for Wizard magazine and taught at his alma mater, the Joe Kubert School. In 1994 he founded his own publishing house, Ominous Press. The company was short lived, but re-emerged in 2016, partnered with IDW.Ron Marz is a writer, mostly of comic books and graphic novels. He is well known for his work on Silver Surfer and Green Lantern, as well as the Marvel vs DC crossover and Batman/Aliens. He also worked on the CrossGen Comics series Scion, Mystic, Sojourn, and The Path. At Dark Horse Comics he created Samurai: Heaven and Earth and various Star Wars comics. He has also done work for Devil's Due Publishing's Aftermath line, namely Blade of Kumori. In 1995, he had a brief run on XO-Manowar, for Valiant Comics. His current creator owned projects include "Dragon Prince" (Top Cow) and "Samurai : Heaven and Earth" (Dark Horse).
