Tom Tomorrow is the pen name of editorial cartoonist Dan Perkins, creator of the weekly political cartoon, This Modern World, which appears in approximately 80 newspapers across the U.S., and on websites such as Daily Kos, Truthout and Credo. His work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Spin, Mother Jones, Esquire, The Economist, The Nation, U.S. News and World Report, and The American Prospect, and has been featured on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. From 1999-2001, he worked on a series of animated web cartoons which can be viewed here. In 2009, he created the cover art for the Pearl Jam album Backspacer. In 2011 he ended a 16 year run at Salon to create and edit a new comics section at Daily Kos. He has published nine anthologies of his work: –Greetings From This Modern World (1992) –Tune in Tomorrow (1994) –The Wrath of Sparky (1996) –Penguin Soup for the Soul (1998) –When Penguins Attack (2000) (introduction by Dave Eggers) –The Great Big Book of Tomorrow (2003) –Hell in a Handbasket (2006) –The Future’s So Bright I Can’t Bear to Look (2008) Too Much Crazy (2010) He is also the author of a book for children, The Very Silly Mayor (2009). He received the first place Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1998 and in 2003. Other honors include: 1993: Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award 1995: Society of Professional Journalists James Madison Freedom of Information Award 2000: Association for Education in Journalism and Education, Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award 2001: James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism 2004: Altweekly Award, 2nd Place 2006: Altweekly Award, 3rd Place Tom Tomorrow is available for speaking engagements. For further information, contact tomtomorrow (at) gmail (dot) com. He is also currently in the market for a new publisher, if anyone’s interested.

Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch) is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress. In the mid-'80s, Lunch formed her own recording and publishing company called "Widowspeak" on which she continues to release a slew of her own material from songs to spoken word. Later, she was identified by the Boston Phoenix as "one of the 10 most influential performers of the '90s", Lunch's solo career featured collaborations with musicians such as J. G. Thirlwell, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Nick Cave, Marc Almond, Billy Ver Plank, Steven Severin, Robert Quine, Sadie Mae, Rowland S. Howard, Michael Gira, The Birthday Party, Einstürzende Neubauten, Sonic Youth, Die Haut, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Black Sun Productions and french band Sibyl Vane who put one of her spoken words into music. She also acted in, wrote, and directed underground films, sometimes collaborating with underground filmmaker and photographer Richard Kern (including several films such as Fingered in which she performed unsimulated sex acts), and more recently has recorded and performed as a spoken word artist, again collaborating with such artists as Exene Cervenka, Henry Rollins, Don Bajema, Hubert Selby Jr., and Emilio Cubeiro, as well as authoring both traditional books and comix (with award-winning graphic novel artist Ted McKeever). In 1997 she released Paradoxia, a loosely-based autobiography, in which she candidly documented her bisexual dalliances, substance abuse and flirtation with insanity.