Robert Kirkman began his meteoric rise to fame with his self-published Battle Pope. For Image Comics, Kirkman created and wrote the long-running Invincible and The Walking Dead, both of have been turned into smash-hit TV series. Kirkman’s Marvel credits include Marvel Knights 2099, Jubilee, Marvel Team-Up and Irredeemable Ant-Man. His best-known Marvel works, however, have been the blockbuster Marvel Zombies and Marvel Zombies 2 miniseries, and the Marvel Zombies: Dead Days one-shot.
Damon Lindelof is a TV writer and executive, as well as co-creator of the award-winning network series Lost. He served as co-producer on the hit summer movie Star Trek, a reboot of the popular sci-fi franchise.
British artist Ben Oliver has illustrated titles such as The Authority, The Losers and Tom Strong for DC Comics. For Marvel, Oliver’s credits include Thunderbolts, Young X-Men and Ultimate X-Men.
Canadian artist Yanick Paquette broke into the comics business in 1996 at Topps, where he drew TV-show adaptations such as Space: Above and Beyond, Xena and X-Files. His major DC Comics credits include Gen 13, Codename: Knockout, Wonder Woman, Terra Obscura and Seven Soldiers: Bulleteer. His Marvel work includes plenty of dabbling in the mutant universe with Gambit, Civil War: X-Men, Ultimate X-Men, Young X-Men, Wolverine: Origins and Uncanny X-Men. With writer Grant Morrison, Paquette launched Batman, Inc. for DC.
A copy of How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way sparked Leinil Francis Yu’s interest in comics when he was 11. Whilce Portacio’s tutelage helped him land his first mainstream comics work on Wolverine in 1997. Following a successful run, Yu took on such titles as Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, Superman: Birthright and Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk. After an extended period laying the groundwork in New Avengers, he and writer Brian Michael Bendis turned the Marvel Universe upside down with Secret Invasion, and the Marvel mainstay has subsequently worked on event comics including Avengers & X-Men: Axis and IVX, and such blockbuster titles as Star Wars.