Janelle Blarg is a Bay Area writer, cartoonist, and humorist.

In 1990, while other bad kids were making secret bongs in her high school Crafts class, she made her first self-published publication, Tales of Blarg, which became a definitive and influential East Bay punk fanzine.

Her writing, illustration, and comics have been published by Three Rivers Press, Silver Sprocket, KQED, Popula, Manic D Press, Maximum RocknRoll, Vice, Coyote Media, Berkeleyside, and others. She continues to hold a special place for the xeroxed and ephemeral and will always catch feelings when she sees her art stapled to a telephone pole.

Janelle has been a touring drummer, a pop culture journalist, the subject of a seminal riot grrrl album, and the Marketing Director for San Francisco publisher Last Gasp. She currently lives in Oakland.

Lark Pien is a cartoonist, colorist, and author-illustrator of three children's books, and over thirty short stories for comic anthologies and pamphlet style comics. A contributor to the young readers' SundayHaha.com and Illustoria magazine, Lark is best known for her characters Long Tail Kitty, Mr. Elephanter. Her colorwork appears in bestsellers Sunny Side Up, Stargazing, Dragon Hoops, Invisible, and American Born Chinese. She's colored for many YA authors including Gene Luen Yang, Christina Diaz Gonzalez, and Jennifer & Matthew Holm. Lark received a Kim Yale award, a Harvey, and is a minigrant recipient of Koyama Provides.

Lark's favorite way to make comics is with pencil and paper. She likes that a story can be told within a single panel and simultaneously in many panels together. In art, she gravitates towards nonhomogenous environments, prefering to explore complexities of relational objects and their meanings.

Her zine corner on Patreon features the less abstract Immortal Chicken, journaling her travels, animal encounters, food recipes, relationships with fellow chickens, and practice in the internal martial arts. @larkpien

Robyn Chapman edits, publishes, and (sometimes) draws comics. She is the proprietor of the micro-press Paper Rocket Minicomics, and she has held many different jobs in comics. She spent five years at the Center for Cartoon Studies, initially as their first fellow and later as a program coordinator and faculty member. During her time at CCS, she earned her MFA in cartooning, having previously earned her BFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She began her editing career at Graphic Universe, the graphic novel imprint of Lerner Publishing Group. Since 2016, she has been an editor at First Second. She also teaches professional practices in comics at the School of Visual Arts.

She was the editor/publisher of the Tiny Report (a zine about comic micro-presses) and the author of Drawing Comics Lab (Quarry Books). In the spring of 2016, she debuted Twin Bed, her first solo comic in a long, long time.

In 2021 she edited and co-published (with Silver Sprocket) the nonfiction comics anthology American Cult.