Duane Swierczynski is the author of several crime thrillers, including the Edgar-nominated and Anthony Award-winning Expiration Date as well as the Charlie Hardie series (Fun & Games, Hell & Gone, Point & Shoot), which has been nominated for Anthony, Shamus, Macavity, and Barry Awards and optioned for TV. He has written Birds of Prey for DC Comics, Godzilla and Judge Dredd for IDW, Bloodshot for Valiant Comics, and the Punisher, Cable, the Immortal Iron Fist, Werewolf by Night, Black Widow, and Deadpool for Marvel Comics. Swierczynski has also collaborated with CSI creator Anthony E. Zuiker on a series of best-selling "digi-novel" thrillers, which include Level 26: Dark Origins, Dark Prophecy, and Dark Revelations. In a previous life, he worked as an editor and writer for Details, Men's Health, and Philadelphia magazines and was the editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia City Paper.

Simon Gane is an Eisner Award-nominated artist best known for his work on Ghost Tree with IDW Publishing. His first work published in the U.S. was Graphic Classics #9: Robert Louis Stevenson with Eureka Productions and All Free!, a children's Godzilla comic with Top Shelf Productions. Since then he's worked with many publishers, including Slave Labor Graphics, Vertigo, and Image Comics.