Melanie Gillman is a cartoonist who specializes in LGBTQ books for kids and teens. They are the creator of the webcomic and graphic novel As the Crow Flies, published in 2017 by Iron Circus Comics, and winner of the 2018 Stonewall Honor Award. They are also the author of Stage Dreams, published by Lerner/Graphic Universe in 2019. In addition to their graphic novel work, Melanie is also a senior lecturer in the Comics MFA Program at the California College of the Arts.

A.C. Esguerra is an award-winning comics artist and author. Their debut graphic novel Eighty Days, a historical romance epic about queer pilots in an alternate 1930s, will be published by Archaia in 2021. They have illustrated for BOOM! Studios (Adventure Time) and Northwest Press (Theater of Terror!) and are a regular writing contributor for Baum-kuchen Studio. A.C. lives in Los Angeles with their partner and a very good shiba inu.

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