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N.C. Christopher Couch Jerry Robinson N.C. Christopher Couch holds a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University and teaches the history and aesthetics of comics and Native American and Latin American art and literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is coauthor of The Will Eisner Companion: The Pioneering Spirit of the Father of the Graphic Novel. He lives in Astoria, New York, and Florence, Massachusetts. |
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Brian Fies Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, Mom's Cancer Brian Fies is a science writer, illustrator, and cartoonist whose widely acclaimed first graphic novel, Mom's Cancer, won the 2005 Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic (the first web comic to win the award and inaugurate this new category), the Lulu Blooker Prize for Best Comic, the Harvey Award for Best New Talent, and the German Youth Literature Prize, among other awards and recognition. He lives in northern California. |
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Stan Goldberg Archie Marries... Stan Goldberg is a veteran, award-winning comic book artist who has worked more than sixty years in the industry and is best known for illustrating Archie comics for more than four decades. He started his career at age sixteen in 1949 as a staff colorist for Timely (now known as Marvel Comics). Two years later he became the color department manager, and colored not just interiors, but every cover throughout the fifties. In 1958 Goldberg went freelance, but continued to work for Marvel until the mid-1960s, designing the color for all of their classic super heroes and villains, including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Incredible Hulk. He has also illustrated for DC Comics, National Lampoon, Redbook, Seventeen, Ms., Working Woman, and many other magazines. Stan Goldberg lives in Beechhurst, New York. |
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Matt Groening The Simpsons/Futurama Crossover Crisis Matt Groening is the creator and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning series The Simpsons and the Emmy-nominated series Futurama. In addition to producing a weekly cartoon strip, Life in Hell, Groening is the founder/publisher of Bongo Comics. |
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Pete Hamill Jerry Robinson Pete Hamill is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and journalist whose fiction and nonfiction are New York Times bestsellers. Born in Brooklyn to Irish immigrants parents in 1935, he became a newspaperman in 1960 at the New York Post. He has covered wars, urban riots, political conventions, prizefights, and an occasional World Series. He lives in lower Manhattan with his wife, the journalist Fukiko Aoki. He is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. > |
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Stuart Hample Dread & Superficiality Stuart Hample, chronic self-doubter, writer, cartoonist, and “muti-media failure,” has written, edited, and illustrated more than two dozen books, including the international bestseller Children’s Letters to God and The Silly Book, a minor classic. |
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Jaime Hernandez The Art of Jaime Hernandez Jaime Hernandez was born in Oxnard, California, sixty miles northwest of Los Angeles. In 1981, he and his brothers Gilbert and Mario self-published a comic book called Love and Rockets, which still continues today in one form or another. Jaime’s stories of people living in the fictional Southern California barrio of Hoppers have won numerous awards, and Love and Rockets is widely considered one of the most important comics of the past twenty-five years. Jaime lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife, daughter, and a couple of nutty pets. |
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Todd Hignite The Art of Jaime Hernandez Todd Hignite is the author of In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists (2006), co-editor of Strips, Toons & Bluesies: Essays in Comics and Culture (2006), and founder and editor of the critically lauded publication Comic Art. He has written extensively about comics and curated numerous exhibitions on the art form, including R. Crumb’s Underground, which toured museums nationally from 2007 to 2009. He lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife and daughter. |
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Chip Kidd SHAZAM! Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer, and an editor at large for Pantheon Books. His books on comics include Batman Collected, Batman Animated, Bat-Manga!, Plastic Man and Jack Cole, Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, and Rough Justice, in addition to the monograph Book One, Work: 1986 - 2006. His novels The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners were national bestsellers. |
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Lela Lee Fairy Tales for Angry Little Girls Lela Lee is the author of Angry Little Girls, Still Angry Little Girls, and Angry Little Girls in Love. She lives in Los Angeles. |
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Jay Lynch Wacky Packages: New New New Jay Lynch has written for MAD, Cracked, Sick, Playboy, and Time magazines. He has been freelancing for Topps for over forty years, and helped create some of their most popular humor products. |
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Helen McCarthy The Art of Osamu Tezuka Helen McCarthy is a leading authority on Japanese culture and the author of eight books about animation and comics, including the first book in English devoted to anime: Anime! A Beginner’s Guide to Japanese Animation (1993). She was one of the founders of Anime UK magazine, and the curator of Tezuka’s films at London’s Barbican Centre. Helen McCarthy lives in London. |
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Bill Morrison The Simpsons/Futurama Crossover Crisis Bill Morrison is a comic book artist and writer. He currently serves as editor and creative director of Bongo Comics. |
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Francoise Mouly The TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics Francoise Mouly is an artist and designer. Together with Art Spiegelman she edited the groundbreaking comics anthology RAW from 1980 to 1991. She is the art editor of the New Yorker, as well as the publisher and editorial director of TOON Books. |
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Dan Nadel Art in Time Dan Nadel is the author of Art Out of Time and the editor of several books, including Gary Panter and The Wilco Book. He is the owner of PictureBox, Inc., a Grammy Award-winning packaging and publishing company with more than fifty titles in print, and the co-editor of the Eisner-nominated magazine Comics Comics. His essays and criticism have appeared in many publications, including the Washington Post, Bookforum, and Eye. As a curator, Nadel has mounted exhibitions for Portugal Arte 10 in Lisbon, the Athens 2007 Biennale in Greece, and numerous other venues in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Paris. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit Dan Nadel online at comicscomicsmag.com and pictureboxinc.com. |
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Eric P. Nash Manga Kamishibai Eric P. Nash has been a researcher and writer for the New York Times since 1986. He is the author of several books about architecture and design, including Manhattan Skyscrapers and The Destruction of Penn Station. |
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Dennis O'Neil Jerry Robinson Dennis O'Neil is an influential writer and editor of Batman comics and the author of Batman: Knightfall and The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics, among other titles. He lives in Nyack, New York. |
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Jason Shiga Empire State Jason Shiga is the creator of the bestselling graphic novel Meanwhile and the winner of the 2003 Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition. He lives in Oakland, California. |
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Geoff Spear SHAZAM! Geoff Spear's award-winning photographs have appeared regularly in Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, GQ, Newsweek, and the New York Times, and on numerous book covers. His images have also appeared in national ad campaigns for AT&T, American Express, Citibank, and IBM. |
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Art Spiegelman The TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics Art Spiegelman is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale. His most recent book of comics for adults is Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@#*! His most recent book of comics for kids is Jack and the Box from TOON Books. |
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Bob Smith Archie Marries... Bob Smith was born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1951. Raised in Grayland, Washington, he left the family cranberry farm after graduating with a degree in fine art from Western Washington State College. He moved to New York in 1975, adn found work as an inker for DC Comics. Twenty-three years and several comic book publishers later, he landed at Archie Comics. Since 1998, Bob Smith's work has appeared in numerous Archie titles and on the Archie newspaper strip. In 2009 he moved back to Washington, and lives in Covington. |
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The Topps Company, Inc., Wacky Packages: New New New The Topps Company, Inc., founded in 1938, is an international company best known as a leading producer of baseball cards and other trading cards and stickers. It is also known for Bazooka bubblegum, which was introduced in 1947. |
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Jim Trombetta The Horror! The Horror! Jim Trombetta has been a Shakespearean scholar; a reporter and editor for Crawdaddy, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications; and a writer for numerous TV shows, including Miami Vice, The Flash, and Star Trek. He lives in Los Angeles. |
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Michael Uslan Archie Marries... Michael Uslan is an award-winning writer and executive producer of the Batman films, most recently The Dark Knight (2008), the third highest grossing film in movie history. He was the first instructor to teach comics at an accredited university (Indiana University in 1970) and wrote the first textbook on comics, The Comic Book in America. His autobiography, The Boy Who Loved Batman, is being published in Spring 2011. Uslan lives in Montclair, New Jersey. |
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Brian Walker The Comics: The Complete Collection Brian Walker has written and edited more than two dozen books and curated more than 70 cartoon exhibitions. Since 1984 he has been part of the creative team that produces the comic strips Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois. He lives in Wilton, Connecticut. |
