C. Spike Trotman was born in DC, raised in MD, and lives in IL. An artist and writer, she founded Iron Circus Comics in 2007, which has since grown to become the region's largest comics publisher. Her notable work includes the webcomic Templar, Arizona, the "Smut Peddler" series of anthologies, and the graphic novel Yes, Roya. Diana Nock is a freelance cartoonist, illustrator, and designer, with a BFA in Comic Art from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. She spends most of her time hunched over a drawing board in a dark basement drawing funny pictures. Her other comics projects include the webcomics Wonderlust and The Intrepid Girlbot. Ryan Estrada is the author of Aki Alliance, Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes, Ryan Made Mistakes, and Broken Telephone, and co-author of Banned Book Club and Occulted.

He started submitting his work to newspapers when he was six years old, and one of those very newspapers finally hired him when he was 16. He has had many adventures around the world since, but the best thing he ever did was marry Kim Hyun Sook, his co-author on Banned Book Club. Nero Villagallos O'Reilly is an indigenous Latinx cartoonist, active as a prolific and celebrated cartoonist for over a decade. His other comic projects include Golden Trick!, Salt & Pepper, Carnivore Planet, and countless other anthology pieces and short comics.