BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS is an award winning comics creator, "New York Times" bestseller, and is the current writer of "All New X-Men" and "Uncanny X-Men", which debuted at number one on national sales charts. He is one of the premier architects of Marvel's Ultimate comics line and has won five Eisner awards, including two 'Best Writer of the year' and was honored with the prestigious Inkpot award for comic art excellence. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Stuart Immonen has illustrated Fantastic Four and, like Dan Jurgens, is best known for both writing and drawing the adventures of Superman.

Bryan Hitch is the world's most popular comic book illustrator who is best known for his role as co-creator and writer on bestselling "The Authority" (DC) and "The Ultimates" (Marvel). Bryan was also character design artist for the "Ultimate Avengers" animated films, the video game Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and concept artist for the re-launch of "Doctor Who". Visit www.theartofcomics.com.