John Jennings is an Eisner Award-winning professor, author, and graphic novelist. As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. Jennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers). Valentine De Landro has been working in the comic book industry since 2000 on titles as diverse as Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Oz, Devil's Due Publishing's G.I. Joe Declassified and G.I.

Joe Special Missions, and Image's Noble Causes. Before joining Peter David on X-Factor, his work for Marvel included Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Marvel Knights 4 and Marvel Age Spider-Man.