Jeffrey Brown is a two-time Eisner Award winning artist and writer of Darth Vader and Son, Vader's Little Princess, Goodnight Darth Vader, and Darth Vader and Friends. A lifelong Star Wars fan, he lives in Chicago.

He cites the works of Kevin J. Anderson as some of his favorites from the Expanded Universe, as well as those of Alan Dean Foster. Notably, Kevin J. Anderson was the writer of a series titled The Jedi Academy Trilogy, while Brown has also written a trilogy of novels set within a Jedi academy.

He also cites Calvin and Hobbes as an influence on his work. Brown lives with his wife and son. He enjoyed drawing from an early age.