Dan Abnett is a seven-times New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning comic book writer. He has written over fifty novels, including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series, the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, volumes of the million-selling Horus Heresy series, The Silent Stars Go By ( Doctor Who ), Rocket Raccoon and Groot: Steal the Galaxy , The Avengers: Everybody Wants To Rule The World , The Wield , Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero , and Embedded . In comics, he is known for his work on The Legion of Super-Heroes , Aquaman , The Titans , Nova , Wild's End , and The New Deadwardians . His 2008 run on The Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel formed the inspiration for the blockbuster movie. A regular contributor to the UK's long-running 2000 AD , he is the creator of series including Grey Area , Lawless , Brink , Kingdom and the classic Sinister Dexter . He has also written extensively for the games industry, including Shadow of Mordor and Alien:Isolation . Dan lives and works in the UK. Follow him on Twitter @VincentAbnett Steve Yeowell has been a massively popular 2000 AD artist, since his debut as artist of the classic Zenith .
He is also co-creator of Maniac 5 , Red Fang , Red Razors and The Red Seas , and has pencilled Armitage , Black Light , DeMarco , Devlin Waugh , Future Shocks , Judge Dredd , A Life Less Ordinary , Nikolai Dante , Pussyfoot 5 , The Scarlet Apocrypha , Sinister Dexter , Tharg the Mighty , Vector 13 and Black Shuck . His work outside the Galaxy's Greatest Comic includes Batman , Doom Patrol , The Invisibles , Sebastian O , Skrull Kill Krew , Starman and X-Men . Born in Padova, Italy, Tazio Bettin's first freelance art work was for the tabletop roleplaying game company, White Wolf Studios. Encouraged after showing his portfolio to Marvel's C.B. Cebulski, Bettin met Deadpool and Head Trip writer, Victor Gischler and the two collaborated on a creator-owned graphic novel called Sally of the Wasteland , which was published by Titan Comics. This led to work on Warhammer 40,000 comics followed by a move to the 'Galaxy's Greatest Comic', where he started out on Sinister Dexter .