Award-winning author Alan Moore is widely considered the best writer of graphic novels in the medium's history. His body of work includes the groundbreaking graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Lost Girls, as well as the novels Voice of the Fire and Jerusalem and the poem The Mirror of Love. Among his many awards are the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Eisner Award, and the International Horror Guild Award. He was born and still lives in Northampton, England.

Peter Doherty shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for discovering the nature of the cellular immune defence.

Based at the University of Melbourne, he continues to be involved in research directed at understanding and preventing the severe consequences of influenza virus infection.

He has published five books for general readers, including the bestselling The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize.

Liam Sharp has been an artist, writer (comics and prose) and publisher over the years. He made his debut in the late 1980s drawing Judge Dredd for 2000 AD and later worked on series such as X-Men, The Hulk, Spider-Man, Venom, and Wonder Woman.