Generation X-23

Jody Houser decided she wanted to be a writer when she was 8 years old. She earned her MFA in creative writing at Emerson College in Boston, where she completed her master’s thesis in screenwriting and was a winner of the Rod Parker Fellowship for Playwriting. She is the creator behind the web comic Cupcake POW! and has contributed to numerous comics anthologies including Womanthology: Heroic and Womanthology: Space for IDW, CMYK: Magenta for Vertigo and Avengers: No More Bullying for Marvel. Her early Marvel credits include The Cavalry: S.H.I.E.L.D. 50th Anniversary one-shot, as well as the James Patterson adaptations Max Ride: Ultimate Flight and Max Ride: Final Flight. She told tales of the alternate-universe Parker family in Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows and explored the galaxy far, far away in Star Wars: Rogue One Adaptation and Star Wars: Thrawn.

A winner of Marvel’s 2008 Chesterquest international talent search, Italian artist Jacopo Camagni has worked extensively on the publisher’s all-ages titles – including Black Widow and the Marvel Girls, Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil, Marvel Adventures the Avengers, Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Marvel Adventures Super Heroes and Skrulls vs. Power Pack. Camagni illustrated the limited series Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe, and has worked with fellow artist and frequent collaborator Matteo Lolli on various Deadpool projects including Hawkeye vs Deadpool.

The vibrant work of Italian artist Emilio Laiso has graced Marvel titles including Star Wars: Rogue One Adaptation, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Velocity.