New York Times best-selling author Robert Venditti broke into comics the old fashioned way- by starting out in the mailroom. He began working for publisher Top Shelf Productions in 2002, and within a few months sold them the script for
The Surrogates, his first comic book series. The story was later adapted into a feature film starring Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames. Venditti went on to write the original graphic novel
The Homeland Directive, as well as the graphic novel adaptations of Rick Riordan's bestselling
Percy Jackson and the Olympians novels. In 2012, he helped relaunch Valiant Entertainment's comic book universe by writing their flagship title,
X-O Manowar. Venditti currently writes GREEN LANTERN and THE FLASH for DC Comics. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Van Jensen is a former newspaper crime reporter and magazine editor who broke into comics as the writer of Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer, which was named one of YALSA's Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens. He also has written The Leg: The Remarkable Reappearance of Santa Anna's Disembodied Limb, and GREEN LANTERN CORPS and THE FLASH for DC Comics. A native of western Nebraska, Jensen now lives in Atlanta.