JESSICA ABEL is the author of the graphic novel La Perdida as well as two collections of stories and drawings from her comic zine, Artbabe.

MATT MADDEN is a cartoonist and the author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style.

LYNDA BARRY is a writer and cartoonist whose comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek entered its thirtieth year in print. She is a recipient of the Washington State Governor's Award for her novel The Good Times Are Killing Me, which she adapted for the off-Broadway stage. The New York Times called her second novel, Cruddy, "a work of terrible beauty." She received the 2003 William Eisner Award for best graphic album and an American Library Association Alex Award for her book One! Hundred! Demons! She lives and works in southern Wisconsin.