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“It’s a witty, personal, and heart-wrenching coming of age tale with a Portland punk rock twist…In a week full of big name superhero books that will no doubt hog the comics media headlines (including ours!), this very personal, very charming book is the one I’ll be thinking about the longest.“—Games Radar

“This book is simply stunning, whether it’s tackling the real world, the art of Riley’s notebook, or the various witchy stories being spun throughout, every ounce of this book looks exceptional, and the colors and lettering make it feel as if it were alive.“—Comicbook.com

Kelly Sue DeConnick’s work spans stage, comics, film, and television. She first came to prominence as a comics writer, where she is best known for reinventing Carol Danvers as “Captain Marvel” at Marvel and for the Black Label standard-setting Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons at DC. Her indie comics Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly (both from Image Comics) have ranked as NYTimes best-sellers and have been honored with Eisners, British Fantasy Awards, and Hugo nominations.

Ms. DeConnick’s screen work includes stints on Captain Marvel and 2023’s forthcoming The Marvels with Marvel Studios. In addition to having consulted on features for Skydance and ARRAY, she has developed television for NBCUniversal, Legendary Entertainment, and HBOMax. Her most recent stage work, AWAKENING, opened at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas in November 2022.

Mission-driven, Ms. DeConnick is also a founding partner at Good Trouble Productions, where she has helped to produce non-fiction and educational comics including the “Hidden Voices” and “Recognized” series for NY Public Schools and Congressman John Lewis’ Run, in partnership with Abrams Comics.

In 2015, Ms. DeConnick founded the Visible Women Project, whose mission is to help women and other marginalized genders find paid work in comics and its related industries. The project continues to this day and recently expanded in partnership with Dani Hedlund of Brink Literacy.

Ms. DeConnick lives in Portland, OR, with her husband, writer Matt Fraction, and their two children.

David López is a cartoonist who graduated in illustration from the School of Art of Zaragoza in 1996. That same year, he began publishing comics in the fanzine 451. He became a professional with Espiral (1998) in the Brut collection of the publishing house La Cúpula.

From 2000, he began working for major American publishers, first at Marvel and then at DC Comics, where he gained acclaim with titles such as Fallen Angel (2002), co-created with Peter David, and especially Catwoman (2004), which he drew for an uninterrupted 30 issues, breaking several records.

In 2008, he returned to Marvel with a closer collaboration. In Avengers: The Reunion (2008), he brought his love for the main superheroes to Zaragoza and continued at the publishing house, drawing for some of its flagship series: X-Men, Spider-Man, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

His most notable contribution to the Marvel mythology has been his work on Captain Marvel (2014) with screenwriter Kelly Sue DeConnick, work that inspired the 2019 movie based on that same character.

With BlackHand & IronHead (2017), he returned to writing his own creations. This graphic novel was published in installments on Panel Syndicate, in digital format, and later published by Panini Italia (2018), Astiberri (2019) in Spain, Dargaud (2019) in France, and Image (2020) in the United States.

David López has worked for the best publishers in the world and has drawn their most important characters, receiving nominations for the main national and American industry awards.

Currently, in addition to drawing covers for the major publishers, he is publishing the second part of BlackHand & IronHead and hosts regularly on the comic channel “Streaming de dibujantes.”

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