Dave Sharpe has been lettering now for 20 years. He started in 1990 hand lettering in the Marvel Bullpen. After freelancing and teaching lettering at the Joe Kubert School in the mid-90s, Dave came back on staff and developed and helmed the Marvel in-house lettering department. In 2002 he went back to life as a freelancer and continues to letter for Marvel on a regular basis. Dave has worked on many titles such as Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, The Defenders, and Spider-Girl.

Born in Boston in 1960, Kurt Busiek started reading comics regularly at the age of 14, around the age most kids were giving up on them. Soon, he and his friend Scott McCloud began to write and draw their own comics, learning a great deal about the craft of comics, and Kurt decided comics was the place for him. So did Scott, but that's another story.

By the time he graduated from college in 1982, Kurt had already sold his first comics script – a backup story for Green Lantern #162. Following that, he wrote Power Man and Iron Fist for Marvel for a year, and worked on such series as World’s Finest, Wonder Woman and Red Tornado. He worked as an assistant editor, as a literary agent and as a sales manager for Marvel, while co-creating such books as Liberty Project (at Eclipse Comics) and Open Space (Marvel).

In 1993, he and painter Alex Ross created Marvels, a commercial and critical smash and a breakthrough project for both writer and artist.

Since then, Kurt has divided his time between mainstream series, including Avengers, Untold Tales of Spider-Man, Conan, Superman and Trinity, and creating his own projects, including Thunderbolts, The Wizard’s Tale, Shockrockets, Arrowsmith and the multiple-award-winning Astro City. He's worked with a long list of talented artists, including Brent Anderson, Mark Bagley, Carlos Pacheco, Stuart Immonen and Cary Nord.  He's currently focusing his attention on Astro City, Arrowsmith and a new series, Kurt Busiek's American Gothic.

Kurt has won over two dozen industry awards for his work, to the point that he’s embarrassed at not being able to remember them all. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two daughters.

Chuck Dixon
Writer

Born in Philadelphia, Chuck Dixon has more than twenty-five years of experience in the graphic novel field as an editor, writer and publisher. He has contributed well over a thousand scripts to publishers like DC Comics, Marvel, Dark Horse, Hyperion and others featuring a range of characters from Batman to the Simpsons. His comic book adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit continues to be an international bestseller. Considered to be one of the most prolific writers in his field, this award-winning storyteller currently writes G.I. Joe for IDW, The Good the Bad and the Ugly for Dynamite, The Simpsons for Bongo Comics along with many creator-owned projects for various publishers. Upcoming projects include an ambitious line of graphic novels based on the American Civil War.

Jonathan Glapion comes from a family of artists. His father was a self-taught painter, from whom Jonathan learned his impeccable work ethic. He began his career in comics in 1997 with Todd McFarlane Productions. He credits his success in inking directly to his one-on-one time with Todd McFarlane where he learned the importance of an inker’s job what an inker brings to a project. Some of Jonathan’s career highlights include his appearance on an episode of Popular Mechanics for Kids and inks on such high profile titles as Batman, Batman & Robin Green Lantern, Final Crisis Revelations, and Ultimate X-Men, to name a few. He is currently working on DC comics’ Outsiders with Dan DiDio and Philip Tan, and TMP’s Haunt #8-9 with Greg Capullo and Todd McFarlane.

A native of Long Island, New York, Marc Guggenheim practiced law at one of Boston's most prestigious firms for over four years before leaving to pursue his dream of writing professionally. That legal experience led to a staff position on David E. Kelley's Emmy-winning show about Boston attorneys, The Practice . That same year, he sold his screenplay, Musical Chairs, to Sid Sheinberg's The Bubble Factory.

These opportunities led to an invitation to join the writing staff of Law & Order, where he wrote for three seasons before moving on to the critically-acclaimed series Jack & Bobby, and later, the ratings juggernaut CSI: Miami. It was Jack & Bobby that introduced Marc to Greg Berlanti and the two resolved to create a show together, a pact which led to the development of Eli Stone, for which they received a Writers Guild Award nomination for Best Drama Teleplay.

While writing and producing the Eli pilot, Greg pulled Marc in to help him produce the first season of Brothers & Sisters , which has become a Top-20 hit for ABC. (Marc has also written on L.A. Dragnet and In Justice for ABC.) In addition their work executive producing and writing the second season of Eli Stone, Marc continues to collaborate with Greg as a co-writer on the feature film version of Green Lantern to be directed by Martin Campbell for Warner Bros.

While maintaining a successful career in television, Marc simultaneously pursued other creative avenues. A life-long comic book fan, he has been writing comics professionally since 2005, beginning with a two-issue stint on DC Comics' Aquaman, which he parlayed into two critically-acclaimed runs on Marvel Comics' premier super-hero, Wolverine. In November 2007, Marc launched his first creator-owned series with Oni Press, entitled Resurrection, which has been optioned as a feature film by Universal Pictures.

Marc's other comic book credits include Amazing Spider-Man, Young X-Men, Supreme Power, Superman/Batman, The Flash, Blade, and Super Zombies.

In addition to television, film and comic books, Marc is continually exploring other mediums. He's written the scripts for numerous videogames, including Perfect Dark Zero, Call of Duty 3 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Last year, he adapted a new Stephen King short story--N.--as a 25-part mobisode series that was available online and through iTunes.

Marc currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Tara (a fellow TV writer and WGA nominee, who is co-creator of the CW dramedy Reaper), their four-year-old daughter, Lily, their twenty-month-old, Sara, and their cat Rocky.

Marc's personal website is www.legalscribe.net.

Robert Kirkman's first comic book work was Battle Pope, an intentionally offensive superhero parody released in 2000. Shortly thereafter, Kirkman and artist Cory Walker were hired to do a SuperPatriot miniseries for Image Comics.

In 2003, at the request of Image Comics, Kirkman and Walker created Invincible. The story surrounded the adolescent son of the world's most powerful superhero who develops super-powers of his own.

Shortly after the launch of Invincible, Kirkman and Tony Moore began The Walking Dead, an ongoing series set in a world inspired by George A. Romero's zombie movies. The book has gone on to outshine the already impressively critically acclaimed and successful Invincible.

Kirkman's work for Marvel Comics has included a revival of the 1990s Sleepwalker series, Captain America, Marvel Knights 2099, Jubilee, Marvel Team-Up, Fantastic Four: Foes, Marvel Zombies, Irredeemable Ant-Man, and Ultimate X-Men.

Kirkman left Marvel Comics in 2008 and was invited to join Image Comics full-time as the first creator to become a partner at that company since it was originally founded. He now does almost exclusively creator-owned work and has become a spokesman for creator rights and pushing the comics medium forward.

Dwayne McDuffie was the co-creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Static Shock!, and of Milestone Media, the most successful black-owned comic book company in history. A leading proponent of multiculturalism in media, Dwayne created dozens of characters for television, comics, and videogames. In television, he served as the story editor of Cartoon Network's hit series, Ben 10: Alien Force, and the sequel series, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. Dwayne was also a writer/producer for Warner Animation's Justice League, and Justice League Unlimited animated series, and wrote episodes of What’s New, Scooby Doo?, Teen Titans, and Friends and Heroes. He did animation development work for Warner, Disney, Nickleodeon and Cartoon Network. Dwayne also wrote the script for the Warner Home Video feature, Crisis on Earth-2.

Dwayne had written comics since 1987, when he created Damage Control for Marvel Comics. Later, he created or co-created more than a dozen series, including Deathlok II, Icon, Static, Xombi, The Road To Hell, and Hardware. He wrote dozens of other comics including Justice League of America, The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Batman: Legends Of The Dark Knight, The Tick, Captain Marvel, The Avengers, Back To The Future, Hellraiser, Ultraman, (The Artist Formerly Known As) Prince, and X-O Manowar.

Dwayne also wrote the scripts for two console videogames, Justice League Heroes and Green Lantern. He also wrote the script for the Static Shock handheld game.

Dwayne was a multiple Emmy and Eisner Award nominee, and was the winner of the Golden Apple Award for his “use of popular art to promote and enhance human dignity,” the 2003 Humanitas Prize for work that “affirms the dignity of the human person,” and the 2009 Inkpot Award.

José Villarrubia has done digitally manipulated illustrations for Veils, Promethea and The Sentry. As a colorist he is frequent collaborator of Jae Lee (Hellshock, Fantastic Four 1234, Captain America), Bill Sienkiewicz (Sentry/Hulk, X-Men Unlimited), J.H. Williams III (Promethea, Desolation Jones), Paul Pope (Solo, Project Superior, Batman: Year 100), Scott Hampton (Batman: Gotham County Limits), Kaare Andrews (Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One, Wolverine, Spider-Man: Reign), Ryan Sook (Spider-Man Unlimited, X-Factor) and Richard Corben (Cage, Ghost Rider, Conan the Cimmerian). He is currently coloring Conan the Cimmerian and Kull for Dark Horse Comics. He has won the Comicdom Award for best colorist for his work on X-Factor, has been nominated twice for the Eisner Award for best colorist and has been included in The Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibition.