Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell are the geniuses behind the phenomenally successful The Edge Chronicles, Muddle Earth, Far-Flung Adventures and The Wyrmeweald Trilogy.

They both have hugely successful careers separately, Paul as a writer of children's books and Chris as an illustrator and cartoonist for the New Statesman and the Observer.

They both live in Brighton, where they met picking up their children from school. Together they have sold over three million books worldwide.

Mike Richardson is the president and founder of Dark Horse Comics, the award-winning international publishing house he founded in 1986. He is also the president of Dark Horse Entertainment, for which he has produced numerous projects for film and television.

In addition to producing films such as R.I.P.D., Hellboy, and Mystery Men, he has also produced films based on several of his own creations, including The Mask and Timecop. Richardson owns a successful pop-culture retail chain, Things From Another World, with stores stretching from Universal's CityWalk in Los Angeles to his hometown in Milwaukie, Oregon.

Richardson has written numerous graphic novels and comics series, as well as Comics- Between the Panels and Blast Off!, two critically acclaimed books about pop culture. He lives with his wife, Karie, and their dog in Lake Oswego, Oregon.