THE BRAIN TRUST

DAVE POTTER (Editor-In-Chief) swears to people his college years were the inspiration for the movie Clerks. He roams the streets of Los Angeles at night, executing his own unique brand of violent vigilante justice.

ALASDAIR STUART (Editor) is the manager of the Travelling Man comic store in York, and writes for the Manx independent newspaper.

The great and powerful DAN CARROLL (Editor) is the man behind the curtain at E-Volution Comics. You shouldn't pay attention to him.

DAN TRAEGER was dragged away from a comfortable but terribly unhealthy writer's block by SAVANT Magazine. He has been reading comics for longer than most sane people would deem healthy. Please feel free to e-mail him at ruckus24@hotmail.com.

STAFF WRITERS

ROB CLOUGH is a 33 year old who fights cancer for a living. As a result, he is obsessed with forms of beauty in his spare time, be it comics, funky music or college basketball. He is cursed by the need to write about all three, and fortunately has the web as an outlet. He may be reached at tmc@duke.edu.

BRYAN MILLER is a freelance writer from Chicago who dreams that one day he will finish his novel, make enough money to stop choosing between comics and food and convince his girlfriend to stop calling him a geek (and stop complaining that she's so, so hungry).

JEFF CHON is not an urban legend--he's real like you and me. He writes for SAVANT because one night, an unseen person executed a unique brand of violent vigilante justice upon him.

HARRIS O'MALLEY is a struggling animator and artist who has become convinced that writing and drawing comics will make him a god among men. Visit http://www.studiounderhill.com and witness the apotheosis

MATT TERL has gone away to Boulder, Colorado, with a girl, a fish, and a wiener dog. Chasing his MFA, he writes and does other stuff.

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

JOSH BUCHIN doesn't understand why so many people like LONE WOLF AND CUB.

JOSEPH DEFERRARI resides in Pittsburgh where he spends his days posing as a graphic design teacher and his nights pretending to be the co-creator and artist of KILLING CUPID. When he is not pretending he's apologizing to his very patient wife and fighting moderation.

JOHANNA DRAPER CARLSON is the reviewing powerhouse behind Comics Worth Reading, a site Worth Reading itself. She's been writing about comics online for ten years and reading them for more than double that.

SEAN FROST is the co-creator and writer of JOHNNY PUBLIC (www.johnny-public.com), a science noir story about a man with too many people in his head. Sean lives in a rather small village in Michigan with his wife and artist - who are fortunately the same woman - along with an uncertain amount of cats.

JUSTIN GIAMPAOLI has seen the future, and he's gotta wear shades. Because it's bright. So, so bright.

JOHN HANLEY is an ironic artifact himself, in a non-ironic sort of way. Try that one on for size.

DAN CURTIS JOHNSON has written CHASE, JLA, and SECRET FILES for DC. Every time he starts pursuing non-superhero work anywhere, the editor involved inevitably leaves the company or gets laid off within a few weeks. Currently he's working on a LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT story arc. After that, he figures maybe it's time to write THE definitive story about Nth metal.

CHRIS JURICICH has written for numerous comics publications and is a frequent contributor to Sequential Tart. He's also a nifty keen guy. We like him.

AARON MALCHOW is a freelance writer from the fabled Silicon Valley. Before returning to graduate school this spring, he hammered out a living as a mild-mannered newspaper reporter, writing about nonprofits, education, 9/11 relief efforts, and California businesses.

MIKE MEDINA is currently employed by the federal government as a wildland firefighter despite having earned a Bachelor's degree in English. He is a librarian trapped in a fireman's body.

LIZ MILLER has too many action figures and too few comic books. She lives in Los Angeles, blogs regularly, and dreams of being a rock star.

RONALD MONTGOMERY misses standing on the pedestrian overpass near 244 and Lewis in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The sky is a dusty, washed out blue there. You wouldn't believe it.

WIL MOSS is an enigma tangled up in a riddle curled inside a puzzle wrapped in a bag from Wal-Mart with a "Have a Nice Day" sticker on it.

PATRICK NEIGHLY is the author of ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES: THE DISINFORMATION GUIDE TO THE INVISIBLES, from Disinformation and Mad Yak Press.

STEVE PHELEY is being kept busy with his classes at Michigan. But he still occasionally runs with the SAVANT crew, and not because Dave repeatedly promises to buy him drinks.

JOHN PIERCE really doesn't like comics all that much, especially whatever you're reading right now. It makes him itchy and uncomfortable. Put it away, please.

STEPHEN RAUCH realizes he defies all conventional wisdom by having read Kingdom Come AFTER Sandman. But that's OK. Rules were made to be broken.

PAUL T. RIDDELL isn't anywhere near as clever or as funny as he thinks he is. Peruse "The Healing Power of Obnoxiousness" at http://www.hpoo.com if you don’t believe us.

LAWRENCE RIDER is the author of REAL LIVES, and is a contributing writer for Ninth Art.

ROBERT SCOTT is the bossman behind the counter at Comickaze in sunny San Diego, California.

ZACK SMITH is a senior at NC State University majoring in English. He is the Brian Michael Bendis of internet comics sites, as he is also a regular contributor to Slush Factory, NinthArt, Opi8 and PopImage. He will be studying Journalism at Ohio Univeristy in the fall.

RACHEL SWIFT has no sense of humor whatsoever. She is a freelance writer and web developer (and sometimes University of Chicago student) based in Chicago, IL, and is co-publisher and PR director for Evolution Comics.

WENDI STRANG-FROST usually makes pictures, not words. She graduated from the University of Michigan with comic pages in her BFA show, and is currently the artist and letterer on the JOHNNY PUBLIC minicomic series (http://www.johnny-public.com). She lives in rural Michigan with her husband and three feline children.

JASON TOCCI figured out how to write about comics for academic credit. We think he's a genius or something.