Mark Stephen Evanier is an American comic book and television writer, particularly known for his work on the animated TV series Garfield and Friends and on the comic book Groo the Wanderer.

He is also known for his columns and blog News from Me, and for his work as a historian and biographer of the comics industry, in particular his award-winning Jack Kirby biography, Kirby: King of Comics.

Scott Nickel is a writer based in Indiana.

Jim Davis's world-famous strip is syndicated in more than 2,400 newspapers in sixty-three countries with 200 million daily readers.

Since Garfield's birth in 1978, his books have more than 135 million copies in print and have been translated into forty languages, and thirty-three titles have been New York Times bestsellers.