Ricky Gervais has won numerous awards for his broadcast work, including six BAFTAs and two Golden Globes for writing, directing and starring in his TV comedy 'The Office'. His recent stand-up tours were sell-outs and received widespread critical acclaim.

Joe Orsak, from Syracuse, New York, grew up traveling around the globe. He finished high school in Rome, Italy before attending Syracuse University. Joe graduated from SU's Newhouse School of Public Communications.

After working in Advertising as an illustrator and art director, he started his own business, Mastergraphics Studio, in 1980.

In 1982 Joe created a weekly comic strip THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN 'CUSE, which ran in Syracuse newspapers until 1990.

Joe illustrated several comic books for Magnum Comics, MICKEY MANTLE #1 AND #2, wrote and illustrated BROOKS ROBINSON #1 and DUKE SNIDER #1. He also wrote and illustrated SHAQUILLE ONEAL #1 for Stellar Comics. Also in the 1990s, he created several custom comic books for museums in Rochester, NY, Philadelphia, PA and Albany, NY.

Joe is the cover artist for SPORTS GAMBLING 101 by Oliver Jones.

He is also the cover artist for LAW AND THE INVISIBLE HAND: A Theory of Adam Smith's Jurisprudence by Robin Paul Malloy.

In 2008 Joe teamed up with writer Douglas Brode to return to a weekly newspaper strip, SALT CITY, in the Syracuse New Times.

They were noticed by McFarland and Company, publishers, who were interested in starting their own line of graphic novels. Joe and Doug were invited to launch the line with YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS, THE MYTH OF EMILY MORGAN, published in May, 2010.

Their second graphic novel, VIRGIN VAMPIRES was released on October 8th, 2012, also from McFarland and Company.

Joe also teamed up with his friend ROGER STERN to create a story in THE MOST IMPORTANT COMIC BOOK ON EARTH: Stories to Save the World.

With writer TOM PEYER, Joe created a story for the book MINE!: A celebration of liberty and freedom for all benefitting Planned Parenthood

Joe is a contributing artist for AHOY COMICS. He is currently working on MY BAD Volume 3. MY BAD Volume 1 and Volume 2 are available as trade paperbacks.

Amy Chu is a writer for comics, graphic novels, and TV, currently working on projects for DC, Marvel and Netflix. She has written popular characters such as Wonder Woman, Deadpool, Ant-Man and Iron Man. She wrote Poison Ivy’s first solo mini series, and is the first woman to write the Green Hornet series created in the ‘30s. She is also the author of children's graphic novels including Sea Sirens and the sequel Sky Island, published by Penguin Random House. Amy is the co-founder of the imprint Alpha Girl Comics and enjoys non-profit work, creating comics for the New York Historical Society, Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Museum of Chinese in Americas. She studied Architectural Design at MIT, East Asian Studies at Wellesley College and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Amy is a frequent speaker at conventions around the world. You can follow her on amychu.com, twitter @amychu and on Facebook/iwritecomics.

Roger Stern has written for radio, television, the stage, and the Internet, creating scripts for everything from sketch comedy to flash-animation. For ten years, he was the senior writer of the Superman series for DC Comics. Stern has written hundreds of stories about such diverse characters as Green Lantern, Supergirl, Starman, the Atom, and the Justice League for DC Comics; and Spider-Man, Captain America, Doctor Strange, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and the Avengers for Marvel. His first prose novel, The Death and Life of Superman, was a New York Times bestseller.

Paul is a multi-award winning, and double Emmy nominated writer and producer, creating deep and rich stories across TV, Film and Comics.