David Lester is the co-creator of the graphic novels
The Listener and the award-winning
1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike. His poster of anti-war protester Malachi Ritscher was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of
The Fearless Benjamin Lay, on which this book is based.
Paul Buhle, a retired senior lecturer at Brown University, is the authorized biographer of C. L. R. James. He has edited more than a dozen nonfiction graphic novels, including
Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson.