Ryan North's recent work includes the nonfiction books
How To Take Over The World and
How To Invent Everything, the semi-fictional graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's
Slaughterhouse-Five, and the so-far-fictional
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series for Marvel. He's a multiple
New York Times bestseller whose work has been translated into 16 different languages to date, and as a linguist, he's very happy about that. He lives in Toronto, where he once
messed up walking his dog so badly it made the news.
Comic illustrators
Shelli Paroline and
Braden Lamb form an Eisner Award–winning art team collaborating on the
Adventure Time comics,
Midas,
One Day a Dot and
Making Scents. Braden is the colorist for several
New York Times bestselling books, including
Guts and The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels. Shelli is co-director of a local arts festival, the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE). Together, they share a passion for graphic storytelling for all ages. They are married and live in Salem, Massachusetts.
Comic illustrators
Shelli Paroline and
Braden Lamb form an Eisner Award–winning art team collaborating on the
Adventure Time comics,
Midas,
One Day a Dot and
Making Scents. Braden is the colorist for several
New York Times bestselling books, including
Guts and The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels. Shelli is co-director of a local arts festival, the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE). Together, they share a passion for graphic storytelling for all ages. They are married and live in Salem, Massachusetts.
Mike Holmes is the author of
My Own World (First Second), the artist for
Wings of Fire (Scholastic) and
Secret Coders (First Second), has drawn for
Adventure Time and
Bravest Warriors, and was a regular contributor to
MAD magazine. He created the comic strip
True Story and the art project
Mikenesses. He was born in British Columbia, raised in Nova Scotia, and now lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Meredith, and son, Oscar.
Dustin Nguyen is a
New York Times bestselling and multiple Eisner Award–winning American comics creator best known for his work on Image Comics’
Descender,
Ascender,
Little Monsters; DC Comics’
Batman: L’il Gotham; Scholastic’s
DC Comics: Secret Hero Society, and many other things Gotham–related. His past body of work includes
Wildcats V3.0,
The Authority Revolution,
Batman,
Superman/Batman,
Detective Comics, his creator-owned project,
Manifest Eternity, plus
Batgirl and
Batman: Streets of Gotham. He also co-wrote and illustrated
Justice League Beyond and illustrated Vertigo’s
American Vampire: Lord of Nightmares with writer Scott Snyder. Aside from providing cover illustrations for the majority of his own books, his cover art can also be found on titles from
Batman Beyond,
Batgirl,
Justice League: Generation Lost,
Supernatural, and
Friday the 13th, to numerous other DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Boom, IDW, and Image Comics.
Jess Fink is an award-winning illustrator and graphic novelist living in New York, but she is originally from outer space. Her graphic novels
Chester 5000 and
We Can Fix It are published by Top Shelf Comics. She has a degree in illustration and cartooning from the School of Visual Arts. Her illustrations have appeared in the
New York Times, the
North American Review, and more. Various anthologies have featured her comic work, including
SPX and
Popgun. Her erotic comic work has been published by Fantagraphics books and featured in the Museum of Sex in Manhattan, New York, as well as the
Best Erotic Comics,
Erotic Comics, and
Smut Peddler collections.
Jeffrey Brown is the bestselling author and illustrator of the middle-grade Jedi Academy series, as well as the Darth Vader and Son series. When he was a kid, Jeffrey always dreamed of growing up to draw comics and make books for a living—and now he’s living that dream! Jeffrey has written a number of autobiographical books for adults, humorous graphic novels about cats, and parodies like
Incredible Change-Bots. His middle-grade series Lucy & Andy Neanderthal was 40,000 years in the making, telling the story of a kid sister and brother living in the Stone Age, along with real research into life in prehistoric times. He also paid tribute to all the great teachers he's had with the picture book
My Teacher Is a Robot.
Jim Rugg is a comic book artist, book maker, illustrator, and designer. Books include
Street Angel,
The PLAIN Janes,
Afrodisiac,
Notebook Drawings,
Rambo 3.5, and
Supermag. He loves comic books, zines, lettering, podcasts, running, pro-wrestling, pizza, and cats. He lives and draws in Pittsburgh. He teaches visual storytelling at the School of Visual Arts and the Animation Workshop in Denmark. Accolades include Eisner and Ignatz Awards, AIGA 50/50, Society of Illustrators Annual, and Investing in Professional Artists: The Pittsburgh-Region Artists Grants Program, a partnership of the Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation.
Missy Pena is an American illustrator living and working in Barcelona, Spain. Missy specializes in 2D digital art, and is best known for fantasy character designs, nerdy fanart, and cover work on the
Steven Universe comic books.
Becca Tobin is a cartoonist, illustrator, and visual artist from the UK currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Becca’s comics include
Understanding,
Frontier 9,
It's Me, and
Lunchtime.
Liz Prince was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1981, and grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2002, Liz returned to Boston to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where she received a BFA. Liz draws comics full time, and lives in Portland, Maine, with her cats, Wolfman and Dracula, and her husband, Kyle. Her first book,
Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? (Top Shelf Productions) received the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut in 2005. She has drawn comics for dozens of anthologies, self-published many mini comics and zines, and has contributed to several Cartoon Network comics properties such as
Adventure Time,
Regular Show, and
Clarence. Liz’s first graphic novel,
Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir, was released in 2014 by Zest Books, to critical acclaim, and has since been published in French, Spanish, Korean, and was adapted as an audiobook. In 2017, Liz created the punk comic series
Coady and the Creepies for KaBoom! with artist Amanda Kirk, and it’s probably her favorite comic that she’s made.
Yumi Sakugawa is an Ignatz Award–nominated comic book artist and the author of
I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You and
Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe. Her comics have also appeared in
The Believer,
Bitch,
The Best American Non Required Reading 2014,
The Rumpus,
Folio,
Fjords Review, and other publications. She has also exhibited multimedia installations at the Japanese American National Museum and the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building. A graduate from the fine art program of University of California, Los Angeles, she lives in Los Angeles.
Carey Pietsch is currently the co-adapter and artist on the Adventure Zone graphic novel series from First Second books. Books 1–5—
The Eleventh Hour, The Crystal Kingdom,
Petals to the Metal,
Murder on the Rockport Limited, and
Here There Be Gerblins—are out in bookstores everywhere, and you can buy them online at theadventurezonecomic.com. Previously, she was the artist on the
Mages of Mystralia webcomic,
Lumberjanes Issues #29–32, and
Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift. Her original comics
Rift and
The Witches' Daughters appeared in SOI's Comic & Cartoon Art Annual, 2015; Gleam was a part of the 2016 show. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including
Chainmail Bikini,
Oath,
1001 Knights,
Blood Root, and
Terrestrial. When she's not making comics, she's probably playing a tabletop game, collecting more plants, or working on a goofy podcast about
Animorphs. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2010 and is now living in Brooklyn.
Jesse Tise is an Los Angeles–based, multidisciplinary artist who graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design with a BFA in illustration design. Freelance editorial clients include Strategic Insight, the
New York Times, BOOM! Comics, and Cricket Media. After working as an art instructor teaching adults with developmental disabilities in the nonprofit sector, he transitioned full time to the TV animation industry with Netflix Animation, where he helped design backgrounds, props, and effects for an upcoming CG–animated preschool series. He currently works at Shadow Machine as a background layout artist, and resides in South Pasadena, California, where he enjoys throwing functional, wheel-thrown pottery and watching endless reruns of
Mystery Science Theater 3000 with his wife, Elizabeth, and their cat, Maple.
Ian McGinty was an American comic book writer and artist. He was best known for his creator-owned comic
Welcome to Showside, as well as for his work on
Adventure Time,
Bee and PuppyCat, and
Invader ZIM.
David Cutler is an artist and illustrator who has been working in comics since 2010, his clients including Marvel Comics, Warner Bros. Animation, Alternative History, Zenescope Entertainment, and Boom Studios, among others. Born in Bay St. George, Newfoundland, David is a proud member of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation, and is a swell guy to boot. He moved to Toronto in 2007 to follow dreams of comic book stardom, where he currently lives with his first born catson, Chester. Somewhere along the way, he earned his BA in English literature from St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and studied illustration at Max the Mutt Animation School.
