Born in Pisa, Becky Cloonan began her career self-publishing mini-comics in 1999. Since then she has gone on to work with publishers like DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse, Harper Collins, and Marvel, winning a few Eisner Awards along the way, both for self-published books.

In 2012 Becky broke a glass ceiling, becoming the first woman to illustrate an issue of Batman. In her spare time, she illustrates for Mondo, Criterion, Roadburn Festival, Konkani, and DeathWaltz Records, and has worked with bands like Clutch, Abbath, X Japan, and Black Sabbath.

Paul Dini is a multiple Emmy and Eisner Award-winning writer and producer who has helped redefine the legends of the DC Universe in such series as The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Krypto and Justice League Unlimited.

In comics he has authored THE WORLD’S GREATEST SUPER-HEROES, illustrated by Alex Ross. Dini has also collaborated with Chip Kidd on Batman Animated for HarperCollins.

Corinna Bechko is a Hugo- and Eisner-nominated New York Times best-selling author. Her work includes Invisible Republic, Star Wars- Legacy, Savage Hulk, Angel, Once Upon a Time, Court of the Dead, Green Lantern- Earth One, and The Expanse.

In addition to comics she writes prose and science-based books for young readers, including Smithsonian Dig it- Dinosaurs and Smithsonian 1000 Super Space Facts. Corinna lives in Los Angeles where she works with dinosaurs and rescues parrots.

Tom King is a comic book writer and novelist, best known for his work at DC Comics including Batman, Mister Miracle, Grayson and Omega Men.

He often relies on his experience as an ex-CIA agent and experiences during the recent conflicts in the Middle East in his writing, especially apparent in Grayson (alongside co-writer Tim Seeley), Omega Men and in The Sheriff of Babylon, published under the Vertigo imprint.

Tim Seeley is one of those “slash” people…a writer-slash-artist. He has drawn a number of different comic book series including G.I Joe, Halloween, WildC.A.T.s and Ex Sanguine.

His writing work includes the New York Times best-selling Hack/Slash, Witchblade, Batman Eternal and the critically acclaimed Revival. He resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife, Gina.

He works at our Star Studios where he is never far from his 80s action figure collection. The author lives in Chicago, IL..

Mariko Tamaki has garnered much acclaim for both her written and performance-based work. The graphic novel Skim (with Jillian Tamaki) was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and received numerous other accolades, including the Doug Wright Award for Best Graphic Novel, the Ignatz Award, and the Joe Schuster Award. Tamaki was also awarded the Writers' Trust Honour of Distinction for her body of work.

Brandon Thomas is the writer and co-creator of critically acclaimed comics series Excellence, Horizon, and The Many Adventures of Miranda Mercury. Previous work includes the comics series Noble, Voltron, and Fantastic Four Tales. At DC, Thomas has written Hardware- Season One, Aquaman/Green Arrow- Deep Target, Aquaman- The Becoming, and Batman- Urban Legends.

Joshua Williamson lives in Portland, Oregon. His career as a comics writer kicked off in 2007, and since then he has done a number of books for Shadowline, Image, Desperado Publishing, Kick Start and DC Comics.

He has written the UNCHARTED limited series based on the best-selling video game, VOODOO, and Marvel's ILLUMINATI and RED SKULL. He is currently writing THE FLASH for DC Comics.

John Romita is a comic book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man and for co-creating characters like The Punisher and Wolverine. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002.