Award-winning   comic-book creator Brian Michael Bendis is one of the most successful writers in the industry today.   In addition to an acclaimed run on Daredevil, he has helmed a renaissance for Marvel’s popular Avengers franchise and written the   event projects House of M,   Secret War, Secret Invasion, Siege, Age   of Ultron and Civil War   II. Bendis wrote every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man from its launch   in 2000 before bringing his multiracial Spider-Man, Miles Morales, to the   Marvel Universe for continuing adventures. He took on Marvel’s mutants in the   pages of All-New X-Men   and Uncanny X-Men, and   launched Guardians of the Galaxy into the stratosphere. Bendis shook up the life of Tony Stark   in Invincible Iron Man   and related titles, introducing Riri Williams as Ironheart, and then   assembled street-level heroes Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Daredevil and his   co-creation Jessica Jones in Defenders. His creator-owned projects include Scarlet   with Alex Maleev, Brilliant with Mark Bagley, and Takio and the Eisner Award-winning Powers   with Michael Avon Oeming.
Sara   Pichelli worked in the animation industry as a storyboard   artist and character designer before taking a chance in the comics business.   After breaking in in her native Italy, she was a layout assistant for David   Messina on Star Trek   for IDW. In 2008, she was one of the winners of the ChesterQuest   International Talent Search and has since worked for Marvel Comics on such   titles as NYX, Runaways, Eternals, X-Men: Pixie Strikes Back and Namora.   She joined writer Brian Michael Bendis on Ultimate   Spider-Man, and together the pair introduced the   new Spider-Man, Miles Morales, in the pages of Ultimate   Fallout and Ultimate   Comics Spider-Man. They continued Miles’   adventures in Spider-Man,   and paired him with Peter Parker in Spider-Men and Spider-Men II. Pichelli reunited with Bendis on Guardians   of the Galaxy.
Hired   on the strength of his Official Marvel Tryout penciling submission, Mark Bagley rose to prominence as the artist of 1990s sleeper hit New Warriors. Following an acclaimed   run on Amazing Spider-Man,   he worked with writer Kurt Busiek on Thunderbolts. When Marvel launched its Ultimate line, Bagley and Brian   Michael Bendis led the way with Ultimate   Spider-Man, whose years of success made the pair   the longest-running creative team in Marvel history. Bendis and Bagley have   also collaborated on Avengers Assemble and the creator-owned Brilliant. His subsequent credits include Fantastic   Four, Cataclysm: The   Ultimates’ Last Stand, Hulk, All-New X-Men and Venom.
Bill   Sienkiewicz has had a major impact on the comic-book   field with his innovative blend of collage, illustration techniques and   storytelling. His influential work has garnered industry-wide acclaim and   earned him nearly every major comic-book illustration award in the United   States and abroad. His credits include a groundbreaking collaboration with   Chris Claremont on New Mutants; Elektra: Assassin, for which he received the prestigious Yellow Kid Award; the   Marvel Graphic Novel Daredevil: Love and War; and the critically acclaimed Stray   Toasters, which he wrote and illustrated. In   addition to his work in the comic-book industry, Sienkiewicz has added his   talents to TV and movie projects, including the film Unforgiven and the animated series Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?,   for which he received two Emmy nominations. Sienkiewicz was also selected to   produce the artwork for the critically acclaimed painted biography Voodoo Child: The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix, published by Viking Press. He divides his time between comic   books and classic illustration, with his work continuing to inspire a new   generation of innovative artists.
Artist   Michael Allred established   himself as a leading creative force in the industry with his creation Madman, which earned him three   Eisner Award nominations and a Harvey Award win for Best New Series. He first   came to Marvel in 2001, helping relaunch the pop-inspired and acclaimed X-Force (later X-Statix). He illustrated The Golden Plates, an adaptation of   the Book of Mormon, and began a new Madman series, Madman   Atomic Comics, for Image Comics. Allred and Neil   Gaiman created the Metamorpho story in DC Comics’ Eisner and Harvey   Award-winning Wednesday Comics, while his DC/Vertigo collaboration with Chris Roberson, iZOMBIE, was adapted into a TV   series. He returned to Marvel with FF and then Silver Surfer. Allred is also an accomplished filmmaker, actor and   singer/guitarist for The Gear.