Salgood Sam is Max Douglas backwards. Start early and often. At 6 rather than lemonade, I sold drawings from a box beside the curb. In grade 7 I was selling art for the cover pages of my fellow students presentations making money for gravy with my ill-gotten fries! [it's a long story]. I drew often and early. My first role models were my mother, a working artist, and my father, a photographer and trouble maker. Despite these seemingly obvious hints, I fancied a career as a rocket scientist. But that didn't work out. So I kept drawing. I thought maybe a forger! How fun! But then I got sucked into drawing comics, In the end they won. I got started publishing zines through the 80s, and by the early 90s was working professionally as a comic artist at Marvel drawing Night Breed, Saint Sinner, and assorted 2099 titles. While it’s been bumpy at times, I've been lucky. In the 20 years since then i've spent much of my time drawing both commercial, and creator owned or underground comix. Along the way i've also paid the bills as a designer for animation, and as an illustrator. I was honored to be among those nominated “Best Emerging Talent” for the inaugural 2005 Doug Wright Awards for the first iteration of RevolveЯ, in 2007 I drew the best seller Therefore Repent! with collaborator Jim Monroe, and have work in the Eisner winning anthologies Comic Book Tattoo, Popgun 4, and in Awesome 2: Awesomer. I have a graphic novel, Dream Life | a late coming of age: book one, coming out in May 2013, and a Dracula comic in the works with Mark Sable. In my spare stolen moments I founded and publish the comics news metablog Sequential. Salgood Sam is I, is Max Douglas. Backwards. And I no longer know what I would do without art.

Meags Fitzgerald is a Montreal-based artist and an award winning illustrator, graphic novelist and animator. Her talents also include improv comedy and live storytelling. Fitzgerald is the author and illustrator of the non-fiction graphic novel, Photobooth: A Biography (spring 2014) and the graphic memoir, Long Red Hair (fall 2015), both published by Conundrum Press. When she's not drawing or performing, Fitzgerald is learning aerial silks and trapeze with the circus.

François Vigneault is an American-born cartoonist living in Québec. His sci-fi graphic novel TITAN (Oni Press, 2020) was originally published in French by Éditions Pow Pow in 2017 and has been called 'a smart, stylish political sci-fi romance thriller' by the Comics Journal. TITAN has been nominated for multiple prizes, including the Prix Des Libraries Québec and the Joe Shuster Award for Best Cartoonist. He is the illustrator of the series Orcs in Space and the children's book Extraordinary Eyeglasses and the co-creator of 13e Avenue, a YA graphic novel created with Geneviève Pettersen and published by Éditions de la Pastèque, which won the inaugural Prix Des Libraries Québec award for best youth graphic novel, along with prizes at the Trois Rivieres and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Book Festivals, and has been nominated for many others, including the Prix des Collèges at the 2020 Angoulême Comics Festival. His translations (French to English) include the series Talli: Daughter of the Moon and the graphic novels Boulet's Notes and The Immersion Program His comics and illustrations have appeared in NOW, Planches, XINO, Cayrel's Ring, The Feathertale Review, The Portland Mercury, The California Sunday, Kayak Magazine, This Magazine, CRAFT Magazine, Papercutter, and the Society of Illustrators Cartoon and Comic Art Annual. He is also the co-host of the podcast Apples to Giraffes, along with the cartoonist Jonas Madden-Connor.