Emily Crow

Emily Crow (Linda Howard) is an inveterate and incorrigible geek, especially in the fields of comics, role-playing games, horror and science fiction. She lives in the freak Mecca of San Francisco, where she strives daily to defy categorization and compartmentalization. As a founding member of the Dung Beetle Comics collective, she writes and letters comics with cartoonists Miss Moss and Jack Shen. On the pirate-monkey-robot-ninja continuum, she falls in the Monkey/Pirate quadrant.

Shaenon K. Garrity

http://www.skin-horse.com

http://www.shaenon.com

I edit manga for Viz Media and volunteer at the Cartoon Art Museum.

Chuck Whelon

http://www.pewfell.com

http://www.pewfell.com

I am the creator, artist and co-writer of Pewfell. I was born and raised near the Basingstoke roundabout in England but now work for an advertising agency in San Francisco, CA where I live with my wife and son.

Some of my influences for Pewfell include Popeye, Asterix, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and the books of Terry Pratchett. Pewfell is an everyman, struggling to make his way in an exceedingly bizarre world, he is a hero, but more often than not he is also a victim.

The series has something of an autobiographical nature to it; it takes place more-or-less in real-time and Pewfell ages along with me. Changes in Pewfell's life reflect changes in my own and characters are often based on people I meet. Sometimes people will pester me to put them into the strip. The last person who did this was my former next-door neighbor, who you now know as Gnoma, so be warned!

I love to work in the sci-fi/fantasy genre because it frees me to tell stories that are not tied to any specific location or time and can provide some perspective and comment on the wacky world we live in. It also means I get to draw lots of fun stuff like goofy looking monsters and bodacious warrior princesses in chainmail bikinis.

Pewfell began running as daily webcomic in early 2001 and was one of the charter strips offered as part of ModernTales.com when it launched in 2002 and continues to appear there to this day.

Mark Schulze

http://www.quantcast.com

VP at Quantcast

Jon Sukarangsan

http://www.fortunecookiepress.com/comicshome.aspx

http://www.fortunecookiepress.com

Jon Sukarangsan was born and raised in Texas, and was always inspired by panels with talking heads. His work has been seen in several publications, but you’ve probably never read any of them. He had a one year run on Monkey Man for MoviePoopShoot.com and also enjoys photography and design. He currently lives in San Francisco and is working a graphic novel entitled Hurricane Season.

David Sophia Siegel

http://www.bonelesschildren.com/comics.shtml

http://www.bonelesschildren.com

I write a webcomic with the title of "The Boneless Children Foundation," a photo-based webcomic with the same title as the rock band for which I am the band leader. Many comics relate to the rock band, in fact. And all this is based out of the San Francisco area.