ALAN GILL

Alan Gill is the Founder of Ultimate Comics, a five-store family of brick and mortar comic shops he co-owns with Siena Fallon that has just celebrated its 20 year anniversary, as well as the owner and operator of the NCComicon, a comic creator-focused boutique comic book convention that takes place yearly in November in downtown Durham, NC, which just celebrated its ten year anniversary.

A lifelong comic fan, Alan started reading comics in 1976 and never stopped. He even sold comics while serving in the US Navy from 1988-1992 (he was like the Avon lady of comics for service members).

Alan says, “Nothing beats selling a person a comic that they truly enjoy, and to get to see the excitement on their face when they come back into the shop and thank you for helping them find something they connected with!”

ROBERT GREENBERGER

Robert Greenberger is a writer and editor.

While at SUNY-Binghamton, Greenberger wrote and edited for the college newspaper, Pipe Dream. Upon graduation, he worked for Starlog Press and while there, created Comics Scene, the first nationally distributed magazine to focus on comic books, comic strips, and animation.

In 1984, he joined DC Comics as an Assistant Editor and went on to be an Editor before moving to Administration as Manager-Editorial Operations. He joined Gist Communications as a Producer before moving to Marvel Comics as its Director-Publishing Operations.

Greenberger rejoined DC in May 2002 as a Senior Editor-Collected Editions. He helped grow that department, introducing new formats and improving the editions’ editorial content. In 2006, he joined Weekly World News as its Managing Editor until the paper’s untimely demise. He helped revitalize Famous Monsters of Filmland and served as News Editor at ComicMix.com.

JAMAL IGLE

Jamal Igle is the recipient of the 2011 Inkpot Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comic Art. He is writer/artist/creator of Molly Danger for Action Lab Entertainment, the co-creator of Venture with Dynamo 5 creator/writer Jay Faerber, and the penciller/co-creator of The Wrong Earth with writer and Editor in Chief, Tom Peyer for AHOY Comics. Jamal is a comic industry veteran whose detailed pencils have graced books as varied as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the all-ages action miniseries Race Against Time, as well as mainstream hits such as G.I. Joe, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Green Lantern. Jamal has served as the series artist for popular runs on Firestorm the Nuclear Man, Nightwing, Tangent: Superman’s Reign, Superman, Supergirl, and Zatanna for DC Comics, Noble Causes for Image Comics, and a four-issue run on New Warriors for Marvel Comics.

Jamal recently completed the sequel to the hit series Black called White from Black Superpowers/Black Mask Studios, and The Wrong Earth: Night and Day, The Mysterious Micro-Face for NPR Planet Money, and Milestones in History for DC Comics. Jamal also worked with legendary Batman writer Scott Snyder on his new creator-owned series, Dudley Datson and the Forever Machine for Comixology.

Currently, Jamal is hard at work on the newest volume of The Wrong Earth as well as helping shape the next generation of comics creators at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.

SAM MAGGS

Sam Maggs is a New York Times Bestselling Author of books, comics, and video games. Her novels include Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars and The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope; she’s written for games like Call of Duty: Vanguard, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, and Marvel’s Spider-Man; and her comics and graphic novels include Marvel Action: Captain Marvel, Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins, and Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas. She is also an on-air host for networks like Nerdist. A Canadian in Los Angeles, she misses Coffee Crisp and bagged milk.

ANNIE WU

Annie Wu is a writer and artist working in comics and animation. Her comics work includes co-creating Two Graves and contributions to Black Canary and Hawkeye. She is currently writing/drawing the creator-owned series Dead Guy Fan Club.