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About Alex SeguraAndrew CarlChris CondonDan McDaidDavid HahnDavid LaphamFrancois VigneaultJustin JordanMaria LaphamMelissa FloresPhil Hester

Phil Hester has been writing and drawing comics since the dawn of time. He has drawn Kevin Smith's Green Arrow Mark Millar's Swamp Thing Robert Kirkman's Ant-Man and Jeff Lemire's Family Tree as well as notable runs on Nightwing The Flash Batman Beyond Justice League and many more. His recent penciling assignments include Kevin Smith's Tales from the Quick Stop and Gotham City: Year One with Tom King. Phil has written Wonder Woman The Darkness Deathstroke Mythic Titans Giant Swamp Thing Giant and his co-creations The Coffin with artist Mike Huddleston and Firebreather with artist Andy Kuhn which became an Emmy-winning feature on Cartoon Network.  He wrote and drew The Wretch which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best New Series. He lives in the sticks.David Lapham began his career in the comic industry at the age of 20 working at Valiant Comics 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 co-created Warriors of Plasm with Jim Shooter. David turned his back on the superhero genre in 1995 to co-found the independent publishing company El Capitan Books which began publishing David's comic series Stray Bullets. Lapham has won Eisner Awards for his work on Stray Bullets and Murder Me Dead.A writer/producer based in Los Angeles Melissa Flores worked as a creative executive for the Power Rangers brand for nearly a decade before transitioning to becoming a full-time writer. Her Image comic book series The Dead Lucky a Massive-Verse title released last year. She co-writes the Massive-Verse comic book miniseries Radiant Pink Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for Boom! Studios and has also written for Marvel and Oni Press. Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity which the New York Times called wittily original and named an Editors Choice. NPR described the novel as masterful and it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly Kirkus and Booklist. It was also listed as one of the Best Mysteries of the Year by NPR Kirkus Booklist LitReactor Gizmodo BOLO Books and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. His upcoming work includes the YA superhero adventure Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow the spiritual sequel to Secret Identity Alter Ego and the sci-fi/espionage thriller Dark Space (with Rob Hart). Alex is also the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall the Anthony Award-nominated Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery series and a number of comic books  including The Mysterious Micro-Face (in partnership with NPR) The Black Ghost The Archies The Dusk The Awakened Mara Llave Keeper of Time Blood Oath stories featuring Marvel heroes Sunspot White Tiger Spider-Man and DCs Superman and the Question to name a few. His short story 90 Miles was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories for 2021 and won the Anthony Award for Best Short Story. Another short story Red Zone won the 2020 Anthony Award for Best Short Story. A Miami native he lives in New York with his wife and children.Dan McDaid is a comics writer and artist from Scotland. Following a well regarded run on the UK Doctor Who Magazine he co-created cosmic comedy drama Jersey Gods for Image Comics and cult hit Time Share for Oni Press. Since then he has worked on such properties as Judge Dredd and Firefly co-developed and drew TKO's The Fearsome Doctor Fang and collaborated several times with fellow Scottish legend Irvine Welsh. He lives in a draughty old building overlooking the river Tay. Dega is his first graphic novel.Andrew Carl is an Eisner- and Harvey Award-winning editor writer and cat guy. His credits include the Once Upon a Time Machine series (Dark Horse) Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream (Locust Moon) and Comics for Choice (Silver Sprocket).  Chris Condon is the low-down dirty scoundrel behind the ongoing Image Comic series That Texas Blood and its acclaimed Wild West spinoff The Enfield Gang Massacre both with artist Jacob Phillips. He waded deep into bayou waters to adapt Barry Gifford's Night People for Oni Press and has not been the same since.David Hahn grew up in Albuquerque New Mexico and currently resides in western Montana. He is a founding member of Helioscope Studio in Portland Oregon and is known for his work on Batman 66 Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane Marvel Adventures: The Fantastic Four Fables and The Six Million Dollar Man as well as commercial jobs for clients such as Microsoft and Northrop Grumman. David is currently working on Impossible Jones with his co-creator Karl Kesel and Aztec Empire with co-creators Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett.  Hagai Palevsky is a comics writer and critic from Israel. His creative credits have appeared in anthologies such as Dagger Dagger and online publications such as PanelxPanel; his criticism has been published in SOLRAD The Comics Journal The Gutter Review and PanelxPanel. When not writing he can probably be found taking photos of street cats.   Alissa Sallah is a cartoonist (and cosplayer) from small-town Ohio. She edits and contributes to the Bonfire Yearly Anthology (Stratos Topia Silk & Metal) has been featured in the Bitch Planet Triple Feature the Yakuza 6 Song of Life artbook and was the colorist on the Image comic series Sleepless. Her work can be found at alissasallah.com.  Jordan Thomas hails from the South of England but is currently living in Valencia Spain. His first published comics work was the 1920s postwar farm-based horror series Frank At Home On The Farm. Since then he has written a sci-fi western The Man From Maybe for Oni Press and the alien world crime story Weird Work at Image Comics. He likes dogs swimming and swimming with dogs.  François Vigneault is a freelance illustrator designer and cartoonist (not necessarily in that order). His work includes Titan (Oni Press) Orcs In Space (Oni Press) 13e Avenue (Éditions de la Pastèque) and his comics and illustrations have appeared in publications such as Planches Papercutter Kayak and Study Group Magazine. His work has been nominated for numerous awards including the Joe Shuster Award Prix des Libraires and the Prix des Collèges. Born in the United States to immigrant parents he has lived and worked in Montréal Québec since 2015.  Since 1993 Zander Cannon has written and drawn comics about gods robots astronauts police officers paleontologists aliens feng shui masters superheroes and monsters. He lives in Minnesota with his strong wife Julie and above-average son Jin.Nick Cagnetti is a cartoonist based in Arizona and a graduate of Arizona State University with experience doing storyboards and commercial art but he's been drawing forever thanks to a life-long love for comic books. He's been making his own regularly since 2012 with books like Infinite Wonders and The Spirit of The Shadows but he's best known for his work on Pink Lemonade.Born and raised in Puerto Rico Daniel Irizarri has been illustrating or drawing comics for the majority of his life. His art can be found in various projects including Cloudia and Rex published by Magnetic Press Judge Dredd: The Blessed Earth and Star Trek Waypoint 2019 one-shot from IDW and the Oni Press anthology XINO. Additionally his art can be seen in the Kickstarter hit Holy West and a variety of self-published efforts like his Otherworldly sci-fi and fantasy artbooks. He spends his days on the north coast of the island with his lovely girlfriend and their cats.  Inspired by the DIY ethic of the early punk movement Shaky Kane contributed to the burgeoning small press scene before finding a regular spot drawing for British music paper The NME. Shakys work found a home in a whole host of popular British comic strip publications during the late 1980s to the early 1990s including Deadline Revolver Judge Dredd the Megazine and 2000 AD. Returning to comics in 2010 Shaky collaborated with writer David Hine on the highly acclaimed Bulletproof Coffin series for Image Comics. True to his early artistic inspirations Shaky continues drawing for independent publication to this day and is regularly published on both sides of the Atlantic. Collaborating with up-and-coming writer Jordan Thomas Shakys current work includes Weird Work published through Image Comics and The Man From Maybe from Oni Press.Artyom Trakhanov is a Siberian comic artist and video game illustrator living in Belgrade. He has worked on Undertow (Image Comics) Turncoat (Boom! Studios) The 7 Deadly Sins (TKO Presents) and First Knife (Image Comics).