Brian "Smitty" Smith is a former Marvel Comics and DC Comics editor. He is the cocreator and writer behind the New York Times bestselling graphic novel The Stuff of Legend, the cartoonist of Tree Mail, and the winner of the Kids Read Comics "Most Epic Adventure" award. Smitty lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Marz Jr has been an illustrator for over twenty years. He has worked with clients from the New York Observer to Yokohama tires. He has worked as a storyboard artist on variety of projects including Emmy-award winning series Tumble Leaf. His paintings have hung in galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Singapore. Once, he hit two homeruns in a little league game! He lives in Seal Beach, CA where he has seen a seal but never on the beach.