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DANNY FINGEROTH spent many years as a writer and executive editor at Marvel Comics and is best known for his work on Spider-Man.  He is also the author of several nonfiction prose works: Superman on the Couch; Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero; and The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels.  He teaches comics at The New School and is a board member of the Institute for Comic Studies.  He can be reached at: WriteNowDF@aol.com.

BOB HALL has drawn for Marvel, DC, and Valiant comics.  He is remembered for his Avengers work at Marvel along with the graphic novel, Emperor Doom.  At Valiant he wrote and drew Shadowman and Armed and Dangerous, while for DC he created Batman projects including I, Joker; Batman DOA, and It’s Jokertime.

RYAN INZANA is an artist/author based in New Jersey.  His graphic novel, Johnny Jihad, was ranked as one of Booklist’s top ten graphic novels of 2003.  More of Ryan’s work can be seen at his website, RyanInzana.com.

JEFFREY LEWIS grew up in New York’s Lower East Side and has been a frequent contributor to World War 3 Illustrated.  Besides writing and illustrating his own continuing comic series Fuff, he lives in New York and makes his living as a recording artist.  You can learn more about his work at www.thejeffreylewissite.com.

SUMMER MCCLINTON a self-described “Beatnik Chick” living and working in New York, was associated with the award-winning “Thread” series and has been illustrating Harvey Pekar’s stories from American Splendor to THE BEATS and STUDS TERKEL’S WORKING, A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION

TULI KUPFERBERG, one of the last living original Beatniks, has been writing and organizing in the Lower East Side for more than fifty years.
He is best known for his association with The Fugs, the outrageous underground rock band.

EMILY NEMENS hails from Seattle, Washington, and lives in Brooklyn.  She has worked at the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.  She published a collection of short stories, Scrub, in 2007, wrote and illustrated a graphic novel about the 2004 train bombings in Madrid, Spain (www.nemens.com/madrid_comic.html), and is finishing work on Blue-eyed Apples, her first novel.

JOAN REILLY has been foisting illustrations and comics upon the unsuspecting public for fourteen years.  She was a contributing editor for the popular indie anthology Hi-Horse and is a founding member of Deep 6 Studios in Gowanus, Brooklyn.  More work and info can be found at www.joanreilly.com.

NICK THORKELSON’s comics and cartoons include The Underhanded History of the USA (with Jim O’Brien), The Econotoons, and the “Comic Strip of Neoliberalism” feature in Dollars & Sense magazine.  He did a regular series of cartoons on local politics for the Boston Globe.