Ray Felix is a Bronx native born in 1973. His comics include Bronx Heroes 1.0: Runaway Slave, Bronx Heroes 2.0: The Greatest Hero Black Power, Heavy Traffic, Enter: The Roach, and A World Without Superheroes. Felix is also the founder of the community-based organization Bronx Heroes Comic Con and co-founder of Women in Comics Con, both of which promote literacy and education through the practice of reading and creating comics. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including from New York State Council on the Arts in 2011-2016, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Bloomberg Philanthropies; he was also awarded a Citation of Merit from the Borough of The Bronx for his community based work and teaching at-risk LGBTQ youth.

Tom Sciacca is a Bronx-born artist/writer/journalist/filmmaker. In high school, he met future Marvel superstar George Perez, and the two bonded over their mutual love of comics. The duo started working on various fanzines in the 1970s, finally breaking into Marvel Comics in 1974, where Tom worked as assistant to Stan Lee. He was later assistant to Vince Colletta, art director at DC Comics, where he worked on projects such as the 1978 film Superman and the comic book Superman vs Muhammad Ali. Sciacca was also one of the first indie comic publishers, of Astral Comics in the 1970s and early 1980s; he recently revived Astral Comics with Ray Felix as art director.