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Gail Simone
Gail Simone is a comic book writer known for her work on DC Comics' Birds of Prey. She is also the first female ongoing writer for the character Wonder Woman.
Simone first came to the attention of comic book publishers through her website Women in Refrigerators, which listed all the instances in which women were victims of violent attacks in comics or used solely as a plot device in a male character's story. She also wrote a popular humor column, "You'll All Be Sorry!", which appeared on the website Comic Book Resources.
Her first comic book scripting jobs were for Bongo Comics' Simpsons series. She then moved to Marvel as a contributor to Deadpool and a relaunch of Agent X. Wonder Woman
Following a stint with Marvel, Simone moved to DC Comics, where she writes Birds of Prey, the creator-owned comic Welcome to Tranquility and Wonder Woman. She will also be writing an ongoing Secret Six series with penciller Nicola Scott.
Mike Norton
Mike Norton has been working in comics for 10 years now, gaining recognition for projects such as The Waiting Place and Jason and the Argobots. In 2001, he became Art Director for Devil's Due Publishing where he drew the first Voltron mini-series. In 2005, he went freelance and has since made a name for himself working on books like Queen and Country, Gravity, Runaways, All-New Atom and Green Arrow/Black Canary.
He is also very, very tall.
Michael Eury
For some grade-schoolers, the peculiar sight of a slightly paunchy masked man in tights might signal a future on an analyst’s couch. For Michael Eury, it lured him into the world of super-hero comics. That man was Adam West, TV’s Batman, and when his impressionable young eyes first caught glimpse of a campy Caped Crusader on his clunky Motorola, he begged his dad to buy him a Batman comic book on his way home from work the next day. Eury has been reading comics ever since.
A review he wrote of Joel Eisner’s 1986 The Official Batman Batbook for the long-defunct fan-magazine Amazing Heroes (which was edited at the time by Mark Waid) led to Michael's writing and editing for several different publishers. Career highlights—and oddities—include writing “Peter Porker: The Spectacular Spider-Ham” for Marvel Tales; editing for Comico (Elementals and The Maze Agency), DC (Legion of Super-Heroes and the loose leaf Who’s Who), and Dark Horse (Ghost, Batman vs.Krypton Companion Predator II, and The Mask); and writing lots of animation-based comics, including Adventures of the Mask and Looney Tunes.
Michael Eury dropped out of comics in the late 1990s, but in 2002 stuck a toe back into the waters when TwoMorrows published his book Captain Action: The Original Super-Hero Action Figure. Currently, he's the editor of BACK ISSUE magazine—Scoop e-newsletter’s “#1 Publication About Comics for 2006”— is an advisor to The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, and has produced at least one comics-related book a year since Captain Action.
Lin Workman
Lin was an artist and screen printer in the t-shirt industry for almost 20 years, and is currently a graphic artist designing monuments for West Memorials in Memphis, TN.
Lin is the creator of the web-comic Scared Silly and is co-creator of the self-published comic book series Bushi Tales (with Pencil Neck Studios partner Dave Beaty).
Lin has also done his fair share of freelance art for clients such as the Memphis Riverkings (CHL), Blockbuster Video, and his artwork has appeared in Airbrush Action Magazine, Amazing Figure Modeler, Stargodz (comic book with Conquest Studios), on Rock103 (Wake Up Crew web comic) and The OuBushi Talestdoor Channel’s websites, the MSCA (MidSouth Cartoonists Association) comics It Came From Beneath The Drawing Board and Overdrawn and Underwritten, in author Christa Michael’s first book - Ramblings With Redde: Why Does My Life Seem Like A Bad “B” Flick?, and Comic Geek Speak’s CGS:The End comic.
He was awarded the “Superman Of Metropolis” award at the 2005 Metropolis Superman Celebration, and was the Artist Guest Of Honor at ShadowconXIII in 2009. He has also won two M.A.R.S. (Memphis Area Radio Stations) awards for writing and voicing radio commercials.
Lin was the President of the MSCA (or ElPrez) for over four years, but is feeling much better now as their VP.
Adam Shaw
Adam is an accomplished painter, illustrator, and comics creator. He is the artist and writer of a four part-series, Dead In Memphis, about the after-life adventures of four friends who drown while crossing the bridge from Memphis to Arkansas. His other comics work includes The Waiting Place for Slave Labor Graphics, Bloodstream for Image Comics, the online series, Full Dark and cover work for Jetta: Tales of Toshigawa and Jetta/SHI: Arrow of Destiny.Bloodstream
Adam has worked with Craig Brewer on the movie Black Snake Moan and other upcoming projects as storyboard artist, character and costume designer, and poster designer.
Adam was illustrator and character designer for the role-playing game Runepunk. His graphic novel Harpe, a 92-historical novel about two brothers who were the first serial killers in North America is due out this summer.
Andrew Chandler
Spawned from the noble genes of a staunch Canadian and a lively Mid-Westerner on the tropic Floridian coast, reared in the wild hills of the norther-most Carolina, driven back to the Ohio Valley to hone his unprecedented talents, and finally plunged into the pungent arm-pit of the Mid-South, Andrew Chandler steadfastly struggles against the powers-that-be in the vain hopes that, one day, he will rise, triumphant, out of the miry clay; a pillar of Vow of the Naziritehope in the relentless scourge of doubtful humanity, and be that which is scorned and adored: a cartoonist.
All the while, his amazing wife and son tolerate his ridiculous eccentricities because they like him so darn much.
Marc Tyler Nobleman
Marc Tyler Nobleman is the author of more 70 books for children and one for adults. His picture book Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman (Knopf; 8/08; a Junior Library Guild selection) is the first all-ages biography of writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster and the first picture book on the story behind a fictional character, let alone the world's first superhero. He writes humor regularly for Nickelodeon magazine, among others. He is also a cartoonist whose work has appeared in more than 100 magazines, seven of which you’ve heard of including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Good Housekeeping.
Josh Elder
Josh is the creator of the Mail Order Ninja graphic novel series and nationally syndicated comic strip as well as being a writer for DC Comics' The Batman Strikes and the Star Craft graphic novel line. He also gives lectures on comics at schools and libraries across the country.
Josh lives in the small, Midwestern town of Chicago, Illinois and can be found online at www.joshelder.com.
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