Mae Catt (she/they) is a queer, multi-racial native of Los Angeles, and screenwriter. Mae has many cross-genre loves that have helped her write on a variety of prominent projects in both animation, live action, and now comics.
Mae got her animation debut writing for the critically-acclaimed Young Justice. Since then, Mae has worked as a writer for Transformers: Cyberverse, Marvel’s Marvel Rising and Spider-man, and Nickelodeon’s Monster High. Mae has also worked in adult animation with Dragon Age: Absolution and The Legend of Vox Machina. Most recently, Mae has worked as a writer and story editor for Transformers: Earthspark.
Mae collects comic books, cosplays, and contemplates what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
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Kendra Wells is a writer and comic artist living in Los Angeles. Their work includes Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas, Real Hero Shit, and Critical Role Mighty Nein Origins: Caduceus Clay. They are also Lead Writer on the upcoming fantasy dating sim KISS U (18+). You can find them everywhere on social media at @kendrawcandraw and online at kendrawcandraw.com.
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Jody Houser decided she wanted to be a writer at eight years old and never looked back. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College, where she completed her master's thesis in screenwriting and was a winner of the Rod Parker Fellowship for Playwriting. Now a New York Times bestselling and Eisner-nominated writer, Jody has penned stories for DC Comics (Mother Panic, Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy), Marvel Comics (Star Wars, Web of Black Widow), Dark Horse Comics (Stranger Things, Critical Role), Titan Comics (Doctor Who), IDW Publishing (Orphan Black, Star Trek), and Valiant Entertainment (Faith), among others.
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The Emmy-nominated writing/producing team of Kevin Burke & Chris “Doc” Wyatt have scripted 200+ episodes of animated TV shows including LEGENDS OF VOX MACHINA, STAR WARS RESISTANCE, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, AVENGERS: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES, BATMAN UNLIMITED, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, and TRANSFORMERS: CYBERVERSE, among many others.
Burke & Wyatt developed and exec produced both Hasbro’s STRETCH ARMSTRONG & THE FLEX FIGHTERS (for Netflix), and also Robert Kirkman’s SUPER DINOSAUR (for Amazon Prime). The duo served as head writers for seasons of both ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN and MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN, as well as for Marvel's AVENGERS ASSEMBLE, and Hasbro Studio's TRANSFORMERS: RESCUE BOTS ACADEMY.
Burke & Wyatt created the first Transformer comedy series, TRANSFORMERS: BOTBOTS. They currently serve as Executive Producers and Head Writers on LEGO NINJAGO DRAGONS RISING, a series they developed for Lego and Netflix. They live and work in Los Angeles, California.
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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.
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Guilherme Balni: Writer, comic book artist, and entrepreneur from the city of Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil, he holds a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the State University of Minas Gerais, specializing in drawing and photography. He is an instructor at the Casa dos Quadrinhos Technical School in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
In comics, he has worked for significant American publishers such as DC Comics, Dark Horse, and IDW and many more. He remade the legendary Alien with Dark Horse Comics.
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Selina “Sirius” Espiritu is a Philippines-based comic illustrator with more dogs than sense. She gets real enthusiastic about medicine and fishing, and requires direct sunlight at least once a day. You can follow her on Twitter @siriusdraws.
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Hunter Bonyun is a Canadian artist working out of her home studio in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has a deep passion for creating engaging characters and elegant illustrations that capture the beauty of the fantasy genre. With a love of D&D in one hand and a Bachelor of Design in the other, she has pursued her artwork in the video games, publishing, comics and TTRPGs.
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Gus Allen is an illustrator and co-creator of the comic series Lumberjanes. He can be found any given day riding his little motorcycle cross country or at a skatepark trying to rock fakie. If you do find him, please return him to his drawing desk.
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Diana Sousa lives in Portugal, where she works as a comic book colorist, and as a freelance graphic designer doing layout for TTRPG books. In 2023 she was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Coloring for her work in several Critical Role projects with Dark Horse Comics.
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Eren Angiolini (they/them) is a comic colourist and fantasy TTRPG artist. They have worked on some of the most well known IPs in comics: Justice League, Teen Justice, Doctor Who and Critical Role's The Mighty Nein Origins: Nott the Brave. When they're not drawing or colouring, they hit people with swords (seriously!)
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Cathy Le is a Vietnamese-American illustrator and comic artist. Other than Critical Role Origins: Jester and Mollymauk, her credits include Big Ethel Energy and Clueless: One Last Summer. She is passionate about her original characters, anime, and video games. When she’s not drawing, you can find her raiding on the hit MMORPG FFXIV. To see more of her characters check out http://diastrons.com.
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Ariana Maher (she/her) is a Brazilian-American letterer who has worked on quite a number of Critical Role comics, including Vox Machina Origins, Mighty Nein Origins and of course Tales of Exandria. Her greatest lettering challenge is telling the difference between Vex and Vax when reading comic book scripts, but she's getting better at it. Her beloved cat is Ames--named after the Ames Lettering Guide. If you're curious about lettering, you can find her at www.arianamaher.com.
