Chic Jacob was the son of the assistant publisher of the London evening Star. Chic worked for 13 years in the Circulation Department of the Daily Express, drawing cartoons in his spare time. His first cartoon for a national publication appeared in Everybody's in 1950, and after he was taken on by the art agent Ian Scott's Kingleo Studios his work began to appear in Punch and elsewhere. In 1964, he became the Daily Express staff financial cartoonist. On the Daily Express Jacob drew a series of pocket cartoons called "Chic-Feed", and also began collaborating with Les Lilley on the strip "Choochie and Twink". Jacob and Lilley also worked as freelance television scriptwriters, beginning with BBC TV's Vision On, and collaborated on radio scripts for comedians Dick Emery, Roy Hudd and Arthur Askey. In 1973 Jacob moved to the Observer, where he drew "Pinstripe" and other regular features. Jacob's work also appeared in Picturegoer, Star, Daily Sketch, Daily Mirror, Sunday Dispatch, Accountancy Age, Law Society's Gazette, Spectator, New Statesman, Oldie, Insider and Private Eye. He finally left the Observer in 1992, on its merger with the Guardian. Chris Riddell, the Observer's political cartoonist, recalled that "they were turbulent times and Chic was rather carelessly let go, something he accepted with enormous dignity."

David Gerstein is an American comics author and editor as well as an animation historian. Gerstein has five books and countless comic book credits to his name. He has written many Disney comics stories, usually featuring Mickey Mouse and/or Donald Duck and provided American English script doctoring for Mickey and Donald stories that were originally written in a different language. Past employments include Egmont Creative A/S, a Danish comics studio, and Gemstone Publishing. His current work is with various affiliates of Egmont, and Fantagraphics Books. Recurring gags in Gerstein's writing (both original stories and script doctoring of others') include quotations from Shakespeare, Gilbert and Sullivan, and T.S. Eliot, often paraphrased in a humorous manner.

Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), The Junior Woodchucks (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), Cornelius Coot (1952), Flintheart Glomgold (1956), John D. Rockerduck (1961) and Magica De Spell (1961). The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nicknames "The Duck Man" and "The Good Duck Artist". People who work for Disney generally do so in relative anonymity; the stories only carry Walt Disney's name and (sometimes) a short identification number. Prior to 1960, the creator of these stories remained a mystery to his readers. However, many readers recognized Barks' work and drawing style, and began to call him the Good Duck Artist, a label which stuck even after his true identity was discovered by John and Bill Spicer in 1959. After Barks received a 1960 visit from Bill and John Spicer and Ron Leonard, he was no longer anonymous, as his name soon became known to his readers. Writer-artist Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books." In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. (From wikipedia)