One-time Entertainment Weekly’s “Man of the Year,” Peter Milligan was at the forefront of the revolution in comics which were created for a more sophisticated, adult audience. Shade the Changing Man for Vertigo offered a skewered look at American culture, while Enigma, Face and Rogan Gosh pushed the boundaries of what comic books could do. The hugely-popular X-Statix was a radical reworking of the X-Man paradigm, described by Kevin Smith (CLERKS) as “the most well-observed scholarly analysis of media-manipulation filtered through a pop-culture lens ever committed to the page.” Milligan is currently working on other film, comic and non-comic book projects.

Val Rodrigues is a Brazilian comic book artist. He lives in São Paulo with his wife Miriam and their two cats Chico and Frida. His published work includes The Pale Knight for Mad Cave Studios, Deep Roots and Unnatural Order for Vault Comics, and MEZO for A Wave Blue World.