Sanford Greene is a multiple Eisner Award–winning comics artist who has worked professionally for over fifteen years across Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image Comics. His credits include Power Man and Iron Fist, Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Doom for Marvel. He is the co-creator and artist of Bitter Root (Image Comics), the Eisner Award–winning dark fantasy series set during the Harlem Renaissance, and the creator of 1000 for Line Webtoon which won the 2018 Ringo Award for Best Webcomic. In 2020, Sanford won the Ringo Award for Best Artist for his work on Bitter Root. Chuck Brown is an Eisner and Ringo Award–winning writer and co-creator of Bitter Root (Image Comics). His comics credits include The Punisher, Wolverine, and Black Panther for Marvel, Rotten Apple for Dark Horse Comics, On the Stump for Image Comics, and Line Webtoon projects including 1000. Bitter Root is in development as a live-action film, produced by Ryan Coogler and Zinzi Evans for Legendary Pictures. Tom Akel is the co-writer of Stan Lee’s Backchannel and the CEO & Publisher of Rocketship Entertainment – a publishing, consumer product, and entertainment company with multiple Eisner-nominated and Ringo Award-winning series. Prior to Rocketship, Tom led the U.S. expansion of Webtoon as Head of Content where he oversaw a portfolio of over 150 titles while developing key partnerships with Crunchyroll, CAA, Image/Top Cow, and Legendary Entertainment while, an an editor, winning back to back Ringo Awards for Best Webcomic for Dean Haspiel’s The Red Hook and Sanford Greene’s 1000, as well as an Eisner nomination for Ryan Benjamin’s Brothers Bond. He previously served as Executive Producer and Executive Editor of MTV Digital, responsible for 360 digital extensions of 175 seasons of MTV shows ranging from Teen Wolf to Jersey Shore, and while there founded MTV Geek and MTV Comics. At Comedy Central and Spike TV, Tom founded their mobile divisions where he produced South Park 10: The Game, the first network streaming app, Comedy Central Take Out– named Fierce Mobile App of the Year, the first made-for-mobile animated series Samurai Love God starring Ed Helms and Nick Kroll, produced and directed Robert Kirkman’s Battle Pope: The Animated Series, and wrote and directed Stan Lee’s voicetones. Tom holds an MFA in Design + Technology from Parsons School of Design in New York and resides in Los Angeles, CA.Rus Wooton is a veteran comics letterer whose extensive credits span major publishers including Marvel, DC, and Image Comics, making him one of the most recognized names in professional comic book lettering.
