Shary Flenniken is a cartoonist, writer, and editor. Her work has appeared in a variety of books and magazines including The American Bystander, Graphic Classics, and Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great. After living and working in San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Florida Keys, and New York, she now resides where she grew up, in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Shary holds degrees in commercial art, computer technology, web design, and professional technical education and instructional design. She loves post-apocalyptic science fiction, the artist Charles M. Russell, and walking her dogs.

Norman Hathaway is a designer, editor, and curator. He is the editor and author of several books, including Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelia and Dorothy and Otis: Designing the American Dream, and has lead creative initiatives for the Outsider Art Fair, London's Design Museum and Royal Academy of Arts, and artists, including Paul McCartney. He has taught widely on the history of design and typography. He lives in Brooklyn.

Emily Flake is a cartoonist and illustrator. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time, and many other publications. Her weekly comic strip, Lulu Eightball, has appeared in numerous alternative newsweeklies since 2002. She lives in Brooklyn.