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Mike Gold

Mike Gold is not only Editor-in-Chief (and a founding partner) of ComicMix, but also a veteran comic book editor and barbecue afficionado.  He was Group Editor and Director of Editorial Development at DC Comics, founder and editorial director of First Comics, and publisher of Classics Illustrated.  Gold has also been editorial director of arrogantMGMS, creating intellectual properties and overseeing media and ancillary rights and packaging comic books published by several publishers, including Image, Acclaim and IDW.  In addition, he has an extensive background in the media and in the youth social services field, having been a broadcaster and radio personality, director of communication and education for a major Chicago drug abuse prevention program, cofounder and director of communication of the National Runaway Switchboard, and creator and managing editor of Video Action magazine.

Dennis O’Neil

Dennis O’Neil was born in 1939, the same year that Batman first appeared in Detective Comics.  It was thus perhaps fated that he would be so closely associated with the character, writing and editing the Dark Knight for more than 30 years.  He’s been an editor at Marvel and DC Comics.  In addition to Batman, he’s worked on Spider-Man, Daredevil, Iron Man, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern/Green Arrow, the Question, The Shadow and more.  O’Neil has won every major award in the industry.  His prose novels have been New York Times bestsellers.  Denny lives in Rockland County with his wife, Marifran.

Elayne Riggs

Elayne Riggs began writing at age 13, when she realized, after passing around her “Dream Marriage” stories, that other people seemed to enjoy reading what she wrote.  She self-published and edited the seminal ‘zine, Inside Joke, for ten years, as well as Four-Alarm FIRESIGNal, the official fanzine of The Firesign Theatre. For the last five years, she has written on a variety of subjects on her blog, Pen-Elayne.  Her work has appeared in publications such as the Comic Buyers Guide, the Jack Kirby Collector and the Utne Reader.  She lives with her husband, inker Robin Riggs.

John Ostrander

John Ostrander started his career as a professional writer as a playwright.  His best known effort, Bloody Bess, was directed by Stuart Gordon, and starred Dennis Franz, Joe Mantegna, William J. Norris, Meshach Taylor and Joe Mantegna.  He has written some of the most important influential comic books of the past 25 years, including Batman, The Spectre, Manhunter, Firestorm, Hawkman, Suicide Squad, Wasteland, X-Men, and The Punisher, as well as Star Wars comics for Dark Horse. New episodes of his creator-owned series, GrimJack, which was first published by First Comics in the 1980s, appear every week on ComicMix.

Michael Davis

Michael Davis has created and/or written television shows, comic books, and reading curricula. He has run divisions at major entertainment companies and is currently writing a book called Everything You Wanted to Know About Black People But Were Afraid to Ask. Michael is also writing and illustrating a graphic novel on the Underground Railroad. Michael has a Ph.D and thinks most things are funny except cats. He hates cats.

Martha Thomasaes

Martha Thomasaes brought more comics to the attention of more people than anyone else in the industry.  Her work promoting The Death of Supermanmade an entire nation share in the tragedy of one of our most iconic American heroes.  As a freelance journalist, she has been published in the Village Voice, High Times, Spy, the National Lampoon, Metropolitan Home, and more.  For Marvel comics she created the series Dakota North. Martha worked as a researcher and assistant for the author Norman Mailer on several of his books, including the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Executioner’s Song, On Women and Their Elegance, Ancient Evenings, and Harlot’s Ghost.