James Tynion IV is an Eisner-Award winning, New York Times-bestselling writer and publisher of comic books. He is best known for co-creating hit horror comics series including Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake , and The Department of Truth . He is also the writer of Young Adult adventure series, including the 2022 GLAAD Media Award-nominated Wynd , and the 2017 GLAAD Media Award winner The Woods . He spent ten years writing various Batman titles at DC Comics, where he co-created exciting new characters like Punchline and Ghost-Maker. Christian Ward is a multi-Eisner-winning comic book artist and writer. He is perhaps best known for his cosmic space operas Invisible Kingdom co-created with G. Willow Wilson and ODY-C , co-created with Matt Fraction. He has recently worked with actor Oscar Isaac on the OGN Head Wounds: Sparrow and was the artist on the acclaimed DC Black Label series Aquaman: Andromeda and the celebrated Marvel comics series Black Bolt .

He is also the writer/co-creator of the hit Image comic Blood Stained Teeth with artist Patric Reynolds. He is a prolific cover artist for DC Comics, BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, and Marvel, and his other clients include Epic Games and Spectravision.