Adventure Time Compendium Vol. 1

Ryan North is a multiple New York Times bestselling author whose recent works include the nonfiction books How To Take Over The World and How To Invent Everything, the semi-fictional graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, and the so-far-fictional Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series for Marvel. His work has been translated into 16 languages, a fact that delights him as a linguist. He lives in Toronto.

Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb are an Eisner Award-winning art team specializing in comic illustration. Their collaborative projects include the Adventure Time comics, Midas, One Day a Dot, and Making Scents. Braden is the colorist for several New York Times bestselling books, such as Guts and The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels. Shelli is a co-director of the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE). Together, they are dedicated to graphic storytelling for all ages. They are married and reside in Salem, Massachusetts.

Dustin Nguyen is a New York Times bestselling and multiple Eisner Award-winning American comics creator. He is recognized for his work on Image Comics’ Descender, Ascender, and Little Monsters; DC Comics’ Batman: L’il Gotham; and Scholastic’s DC Comics: Secret Hero Society. His extensive portfolio includes Wildcats V3.0, The Authority Revolution, Batman, Superman/Batman, Detective Comics, his creator-owned project Manifest Eternity, and Batgirl and Batman: Streets of Gotham. He co-wrote and illustrated Justice League Beyond and illustrated Vertigo’s American Vampire: Lord of Nightmares with Scott Snyder. In addition to providing cover art for most of his own books, his cover illustrations can be found on titles from Batman Beyond, Batgirl, Justice League: Generation Lost, Supernatural, and Friday the 13th, among many others from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Boom, IDW, and Image Comics.

Jess Fink is an award-winning illustrator and graphic novelist based in New York. Originally from “outer space,” Fink is the author of the graphic novels Chester 5000 and We Can Fix It, published by Top Shelf Comics. They hold a degree in illustration and cartooning from the School of Visual Arts. Fink’s illustrations have appeared in publications such as the New York Times and the North American Review. Their comic work has been featured in various anthologies, including SPX and Popgun. Fink’s erotic comic work has been published by Fantagraphics Books and exhibited at the Museum of Sex in Manhattan, as well as included in collections like Best Erotic Comics, Erotic Comics, and Smut Peddler.

Jeffrey Brown is the bestselling author and illustrator of the middle-grade Jedi Academy series and the Darth Vader and Son series. He fulfilled his childhood dream of drawing comics and making books for a living. Brown has authored several autobiographical books for adults, humorous graphic novels about cats, and parodies such as Incredible Change-Bots. His middle-grade series, Lucy & Andy Neanderthal, explores the lives of Stone Age siblings with research into prehistoric life. He also paid tribute to his teachers with the picture book My Teacher Is a Robot.

Missy Pena is an American illustrator living and working in Barcelona, Spain. Pena specializes in 2D digital art, with a focus on fantasy character designs, fan art, and cover work for the Steven Universe comic books.

Becca Tobin is a cartoonist, illustrator, and visual artist from the UK, currently residing in Vancouver, British Columbia. Tobin’s comics include Understanding, Frontier 9, It’s Me, and Lunchtime.

Liz Prince was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1981, and grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She returned to Boston in 2002 to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where she earned a BFA. Prince is a full-time comic artist living in Portland, Maine, with her cats and husband. Her first book, Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? (Top Shelf Productions), won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut in 2005. She has contributed to numerous anthologies, self-published many mini-comics and zines, and worked on Cartoon Network properties such as Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Clarence. Her graphic novel, Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir, was released in 2014 by Zest Books to critical acclaim and has been published internationally and adapted into an audiobook. In 2017, Prince created the punk comic series Coady and the Creepies for KaBoom! with artist Amanda Kirk.

Yumi Sakugawa is an Ignatz Award-nominated comic book artist and the author of I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You and Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe. Her comics have been featured in publications such as The Believer, Bitch, The Best American Non­Required Reading 2014, The Rumpus, Folio, Fjords Review, and others. Sakugawa has also exhibited multimedia installations at the Japanese American National Museum and the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building. A graduate of the fine art program at UCLA, she lives in Los Angeles.

Carey Pietsch is the co-adapter and artist for the Adventure Zone graphic novel series published by First Second Books. Books 1-6, including The Suffering Game, The Eleventh Hour, The Crystal Kingdom, Petals to the Metal, Murder on the Rockport Limited, and Here There Be Gerblins, are available widely. Previously, Pietsch was the artist for the Mages of Mystralia webcomic, Lumberjanes Issues #29-32, and Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift. Her original comics Rift and The Witches’ Daughters were featured in SOI’s Comic & Cartoon Art Annual in 2015, and Gleam was part of the 2016 show. Her work has also appeared in anthologies such as Chainmail Bikini, Oath, 1001 Knights, Blood Root, and Terrestrial. Outside of her comic work, Pietsch enjoys tabletop games, collecting plants, and a podcast about Animorphs. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2010 and lives in Brooklyn.

Jesse Tise is a Los Angeles-based, multidisciplinary artist who graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design with a BFA in illustration design. His freelance editorial clients include Strategic Insight, the New York Times, BOOM! Comics, and Cricket Media. After working as an art instructor for adults with developmental disabilities in the nonprofit sector, Tise transitioned to the TV animation industry with Netflix Animation, where he designed backgrounds, props, and effects for an upcoming CG-animated preschool series. He currently works at Shadow Machine as a background layout artist and resides in South Pasadena, California, where he enjoys pottery and watching Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Ian McGinty was an American comic book writer and artist, best known for his creator-owned comic Welcome to Showside and his work on Adventure Time, Bee and PuppyCat, and Invader ZIM.

David Cutler is an artist and illustrator who has been active in comics since 2010. His clients include Marvel Comics, Warner Bros. Animation, Alternative History, Zenescope Entertainment, and Boom Studios. Born in Bay St. George, Newfoundland, Cutler is a proud member of the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation. He moved to Toronto in 2007 and currently resides there with his cat. He holds a BA in English literature from St. Francis Xavier University and studied illustration at Max the Mutt Animation School.