Iris Yan is a Brazilian-born Chinese cartoonist who has lived in Brazil, Taiwan, the USA, and Mozambique. She is a professionally trained aura reader, a Math PhD, and an ex-business management consultant. She believes life is humorous and prefers to make funny comics. Her totem animal is a pig.

Gabrielle Bell was born in England and raised in California. In 1998, she began to collect her “Book of” miniseries (Book of Sleep, Book of Insomnia, Book of Black, etc), which resulted in When I’m Old and Other Stories, published by Alternative Comics. In 2001 she moved to New York and released her autobiographical series Lucky, published by Drawn and Quarterly. Her work has been selected for the 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011 Best American Comics and the Yale Anthology of Graphic Fiction, and she has contributed to McSweeneys, Bookforum, The Believer, and Vice Magazine. The title story of Bell’s book, “Cecil and Jordan in New York” has been adapted for the film anthology Tokyo! by Michel Gondry. Her latest book, The Voyeurs, is available from Uncivilized Books. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. (source: http://gabriellebell.com/contact/)

Roope Eronen (s. 1982) on kotoisin Tampereelta. Hän on julkaissut omakustannesarjakuvia vuodesta 1997 asti. Myöhemmin hän on julkaissut säännöllisesti sarjakuviaan mm. Glömp-antologiassa, Kuti-lehdessä sekä ylioppilaslehti Uljaassa. Lisäksi hänen teoksiaan on julkaistu ulkomaisissa antogioissa Frederic Magazine, False Flag, NK, The Milan Review, Turbo ja Smittekilde. Eronen kuuluu Kutikuti-kollektiiviin ja osallistuu Kuti-lehden toimittamiseen. Lisäksi hän pyörittää pientä Petomies-kustantamoa puolisonsa Amanda Vähämäen kanssa. Petomies julkaisee Erosen ja Vähämäen omia pienkustanteita sekä lapsille suunnattuja teoksia. Syksyllä 2011 Eronen debytoi myös lastenkirjan kuvittajana, tehden kuvituksen Ulla Kortelaisen kirjaan Puhaltelija. Sarjakuvien lisäksi hän on toiminut aktiivisesti myös musiikin parissa muusikkona, kustantajana sekä tapahtumajärjestäjänä. Eronen on myös intohimoinen oluen ja elokuvien ystävä. Tällä hetkellä Eronen työskentelee pitkän albumin sekä Amanda Vähämäen kanssa yhteistyössä tehtävän albumin parissa. Lisäksi hän toivoo tekevänsä enemmän lastenkirjojen kuvituksia.

Matti Hagelberg is a Finnish comic book artist, illustrator, graphical designer and teacher. He attended the University of Art and Design in Helsinki and achieved a Master of Arts degree. Hagelberg is the only famous Finnish author to use scratch cardboard as his medium and has won a Puupää hat award of the Finnish Comic Society in 1997. He is married to Katja Tukiainen with one child. Hagelberg's comics are humorous and discursive. He combines mythology and popular culture with fantastic and autobiographical elements in a liberal way. It is also common for Hagelberg to use a heroic character named directly after himself.

Jyrki Nissinen’s (born in 1982) comics are highly punk in their attitude. The language is intentionally rugged, even erroneous, and the drawing is as unpolished as the storytelling. Nissinen’s best known publication is the Borgtron comic book (13 issues thus far). Very productive Nissinen has also drawn five graphic novels and collections, with rather telling names: Kiimaiset maantiesuolan imeskelijät (“Horny Road Salt Suckers”), Nuolee kuin eläin sipsiä (“Licks Like an Animal Licks a Potato Chip”), Yli 10 000 koiran koiranäyttely (“A Dog Show with More than 10,000 Dogs”), Auttaja Hai (“The Rescue Shark”) and Viihdealus Dream Zone (“Entertainment Ship Dream Zone”). Bibliography: Vainajan velat 1. Munakustannus, 2001. Vainajan velat 2. Munakustannus, 2001. Ensivierailuni italialaisessa kodissa. Munakustannus, 2001. Vainajan velat 3. Munakustannus, 2002. Toinen vierailuni italialaisessa kodissa. Munakustannus, 2003. Kolmas vierailuni italialaisessa kodissa. Munakustannus, 2004. Kiimaiset maantiesuolan imeskelijät. 2. painos 2009, Zum Teufel!. Kankaanpää: Happy Horse Comics, 2005. ISBN 952-99536-2-3. Borgtron 1. Kankaanpää: Happy Horse Comics, 2006. Borgtron 2. Kankaanpää: Happy Horse Comics, 2006. Borgtron 3. Kankaanpää: Happy Horse Comics, 2006. Borgtron 4. Kankaanpää: Happy Horse Comics, 2006. Nuolee kuin eläin sipsiä. Turku: Zum Teufel!, 2007. ISBN 978-952-99699-3-7. Borgtron 5. Kankaanpää: Happy Horse Comics, 2007. Borgtron 6. Turku: Zum Teufel!, 2007. Borgtron 7. Turku: Zum Teufel!, 2007. Kaikki vierailuni italialaisessa kodissa. Zum Teufel!, 2008. Borgtron 8. Turku: Zum Teufel!, 2008. Yli 10 000 koiran koiranäyttely. Turku: Zum Teufel!, 2008. ISBN 978-952-5754-02-5. Borgtron 9. Zum Teufel!, 2008. Auttaja Hai. Helsinki: Zum Teufel!, 2009. ISBN 978-952-5754-13-1. Borgtron 10. Turku: Zum Teufel!, 2009. Borgtron 11. Turku: Lesot Lehdet, 2009. Viihdealus Dream Zone. Helsinki: Zum Teufel!, 2010. ISBN 978-952-5754-25-4. Borgtron 12. Turku: Lesot Lehdet, 2010. Tylsät ritarit. Helsinki: Huuda Huuda, 2011. ISBN 978-952-5724-33-2. Borgtron 13. Turku: Lesot Lehdet, 2012. Borgtron 14. Turku: Lesot Lehdet, 2012. Kehittymättömät ufot. Turku: Zum Teufel!, 2013. ISBN 978-952-5754-40-7. Diskography: Miten nauhotus toimii? (kasetti, ?) Jumalan Ruoska: Vieremä (7" EP, 2001) Jumalan Ruoska: Vasco da Gama (CD, 2003) Jumalan Ruoska: Flamenco Days (CD, 2007) Jyrki Nissinen & Laskettuaika: Jyrki Nissinen & Laskettuaika (7" EP, 2007) Jyrki Nissinen & Laskettuaika: Sitä se teettää (7" EP, 2009) Seksihullut/Kakka-Hätä-77: Split (7" EP, 2008) Seksihullut: Seksihullut (7" EP, 2009) Seksihullut & Valium Kiharat: Split (7" EP, 2009) Gunpowder Power & Gold: Wolf Under the Floor (LP, 2010)

kuš! (speak koosh!) is a comics art anthology from Latvia founded 2007 in Riga. Every issue contains comics from international and Latvian artists to a certain theme which changes every issue. The aims of kuš! are to popularize comics in a country where this medium is practically non-existent and promoting Latvian comics abroad. kuš! doesn't just publish comics on paper, but also organizes exhibitions, workshops, comics jams and other comics related events besides traveling to international festivals to spread the Latvian comics fever.

Disa Wallander is a Swedish cartoonist living and working in Stockholm. She loves to make zines and experiment with bringing collage and 3D materials into her comics. In her early twenties she read some philosophy books that suggested that nothing was real and ever since then she has made comics with the compulsion to affirm the existence of the world inside her head. Her sporadic comic strip "Slowly dying" features an array of nameless characters that also appear in the long-form books The Nature of Nature and Becoming Horses. Her work has been featured in various anthologies such as NOW, kuš!, Drunken Boat, and Nobrow Magazine.

Amandine Meyer draws and yarns. She contributes to collective fanzines and self-publishes since 2004. She has released books through ION, Solo ma non troppo, Kaugummi books, F-L-T-M-S-T-P-C. Drawing, ceramic and etching are the practical tools with which she builds her universe. She also enjoys working with other artists, for instance creating a video for the King's Lynn Church tower with the light-artist Julia Dantonnet or building a giant paper diorama to be exposed under a bed, with Christelle Enault for the "Here they found her down on her knees" exhibition... In 2016 she published a comic book entitled Histoire décolorée, at Editions Misma. She also does illustration work and has released several children's books through the Editions feuilles de menthe.

Lee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio’tia:ke (known as Montreal, Quebec). She has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeneys and The New York Times, and was recently named one of the 5 under 35 honorees by the National Book Foundation. Her first graphic novel, Stone Fruit, was released last year with Fantagraphics, Sarbacane, Coconino and other publishers. Mostly, she writes about people eating, talking, and making questionable decisions.

Keren Katz is an Israeli cartoonist, writer, illustrator and performer, known for her visually experimental and poetic comics. She is the non-fictitious half of 'The Katz Sisters Duo'. Katz is a graduate of the New York School of Visual Arts’s MFA Illustration Program and of the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. She is the author of the graphic novels The Academic Hour (2017) and The Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow (2019). Her work has been published in anthologies by Fantagraphics, Smoke Signal, Locust Moon, Rough House, Ink Brick, Retrofit Comics, The Brooklyn Rail, Kuš!, Carrier Pigeon and Seven Stories Press. Katz is also part of Gnat Micro Press, a non-profit community for publishing experimental poetry and comics and the Tel-Aviv-based Humdrum Comics Collective.

Rachel Ang is an artist and writer working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation (Melbourne, Australia). Their work has been published by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and kuš! Rachel’s first book Swimsuit was published by Glom Press in 2018, and they were a contributor to the Eisner Award winning anthology Drawing Power: women’s stories of sexual violence, harassment, and survival in 2019. Rachel still lives in their hometown, where they draw comics and work in Architecture.