J.C. Vaughn is the Executive Editor and Associate Publisher of Gemstone Publishing, where he works on such projects as The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, Hake’s Price Guide To Character Toys, and the weekly Scoop email newsletter. He is a regular contributor to Toy Collector Magazine, the Journal of Antiques & Collectibles, Antique Trader and other publications. His comic book work, including Fox’s 24, McCandless & Company, Twenty-First Century Romances, and Zombie-Proof, has been featured in TV Guide, Emmy magazine, 24 Magazine, Wizard and elsewhere. He is an adopted expatriate Texan from Pittsburgh living near Baltimore.

Identical twins Brendon and Brian Fraim have worked on Knights Of The Dinner Table: The Magazine, KoDT: Illustrated and the Hackmaster role-playing game for Kenzer & Company as well as the Champions RPG system from Hero Games. Recently, the Fraim brothers have illustrated the comic book sections in the Random House novel, Wolf Boy by Evan Kuhlman. They also have illustrated stories appearing in The Wicked West 2, the 2006 A.C.T.O.R. benefit book, Negative Burn from Desperado Publishing, Postcards anthology from Random House, and are currently illustrating the acclaimed daily web comic America, Jr., the first 150 installments of which have been collected in book form by Image Comics.