Alex Ross has been the music critic of the ‘New Yorker’ since 1996. From 1992 to 1996 he wrote for the New York Times. His first book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, published in 2007, was awarded the Guardian First Book Award and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer and Samuel Johnson prizes.

In 2008 he became a MacArthur Fellow. A native of Washington, DC, he now lives in Manhattan.

Mark Waid, Alabama native and current Los Angeles resident, has written stories for every major comic book publisher, and his seminal graphic novel, Kingdom Come, for DC Comics, is one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time..

For BOOM! Studios, he has written bestselling graphic novels Potter's Field, Incorruptible and the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated Irredeemable. Peter Krause is an American comic book artist.

He is best known for his work on various DC Comics titles, most notably the Superman-related titles and The Power of Shazam! with Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family. Krause, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, currently works as a freelance illustrator in Minnesota.