Ash & Thorn: Recipe for Disaster

Mariah McCourt is a New York Times bestselling writer and Harvey award nominated editor of comics and graphic novels. As a writer, her credits include the creator-owned children's graphic novelStitched #1: The First Day of the Rest of Her Life, the New York Times bestseller True Blood: All Together Now, Anne Rice's Servant of the Bones. As an editor, she's curated the Papercutz CHARMZ line, edited The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman, the New York Times bestselling graphic adaption of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, Doorways with George R.R. Martin, Fables by Bill Willingham, and Angel, Spike, and Illyria: Haunted (writer and editor). She was a contributor and editor of one of the top-funded Kickstarter comics projects, the anthology Womanthology: Heroic, featuring over 100 women artists and writers of all ages and experience. The follow-up collection, Womanthology: Space! was nominated for a Harvey Award for Best Anthology. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. See Lee is a freelance comic book creator and illustrator living in NYC. She attended High School of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts. Soo has worked on various covers and sequential art published by Valiant, Oni Press, Dynamite, and AfterShock. She has also worked on editorial illustrations and covers for Analog Sci-Fi Magazine and the Sierra Magazine. JILL THOMPSON is a ten-time Eisner Award-winning comic book creator whose career spans decades. A graduate of The American Academy of Art, Jill was one of the first female creators to come to prominence in the comics industry. She is best known for her work on her own creations, Scary Godmother and Magic Trixie, as well as The Little Endless Storybook, and Wonder Woman: The True Amazon. She has worked for nearly every major comic book company and has collaborated with such noted writers as Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, WWE Legend Mick Foley and many more. In her off time, Jill designs wrestling gear for WWE superstar Daniel Bryan. She is a Spartan Race competitor, an avid cook and baker and a practitioner of longsword in the Chicago Swordplay Guild. Jill also teaches the Art of Comic Book storytelling at The International School of Comics.