Devin Grayson is an award-winning comics veteran with over two decades of experience writing the world's most beloved superheroes. With the publication of Batman: Gotham Knights in March of 2000, she became the first female to create, launch, and write a new, ongoing Batman title. Recent projects include the orchestration of the Marvel Rising comics event, publication of an original Doctor Strange novel, and the Collected Edition releases of two creator-owned miniseries—USER and Matador—through Image. Devin lives in Northern California with her family and an adorable rotation of foster service dogs. Alitha Evelyn Martinez began her professional career in 1999 penciling Iron Man for Marvel Entertainment. Since then, she has had a great ride getting to work on titles like X-Men, Black Sun, Marvel Age Fantastic Four, Black Panther and Black Panther: World of Wakanda, X-Men Gold Annual, Moon Girl, Voltron, NBC’s Heroes, New 52 Bat Girl, Archie Comic’s New Crusaders and Riverdale, and WWE Superstar, WWE Slam City, and Barbie for Paper Cutz. She has done larger projects that required more than just penciling and inking in graphic novels like Vampire: My Boyfriend Bites, Kung Fu Masters, Quest for Dragon Mountain for Lerner Publications, as well as Political cartooning for The New York Post. In her spare time, Alitha works on her creator-owned titles Yume and Ever, and Foreign, which she publishes through her company, Ariotstorm Productions, LLC. She currently teaches at SVA in New York City.

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