Fred Van Lente
In comics, Fred Van Lente is the writer and co-creator, along with artist Steve Ellis, of the SF thriller Tranquility (winner of a 1998 Spectrum Award for Best Science Fiction Art) and the critically acclaimed “super-crime” series The Silencers from Moonstone Books. He designed the hilarious “First-Class Roleplaying Game for Third-Rate Heroes,” Stuper Powers!, currently in its second edition.
In 2002 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named Van Lente a quarter-finalist for the Don & Marie Nicholl Screenplay Fellowship for his comedy/adventure Knightlife. His short comedy The Fan Club took Honorable Mention at the Society of Film and Television Engineers Student Film Festival.
Currently, Van Lente is penning the romantic comedy When You Dance for Mainline Films and the horror thriller Phobia for Sub-Rosa Entertainment.
 
Andrew Foley
Andrew Foley drew his first comic book in crayon, on the wall of his family’s living room.
Rather than doing something sensible, like spanking him, sending him to bed without his supper, or throwing him out with the bathwater, his parents instead supported him in his artistic endeavors. This support enabled him to attend the Alberta College of Art (which he eventually got out of) in Calgary, Alberta (from which he’s yet to escape).
To this day, Andrew isn’t sure why he decided to try his hand at writing comic books, but he’s pretty sure the flushing sound he heard as he made the decision was the comics industry going down the toilet. Andrew is writing a variety of other comics and graphic novels for Platinum Studios, including Conviction, Age of Kings, Threads (with Scott O. Brown), Return of the Wraith, and Jeremiah: The Last Empire, the authorized sequel to the Showtime television series. His other comics work includes Parting Ways, a 142-page graphic novel illustrated by Scott Mooney and Nick Craine, and the recently released Done to Death, with Fiona Staples. Buying any of these books will have an appreciable effect on lowering the crime rate in Andrew’s neighborhood.
 
Luciano Lima
Luciano Lima is a comics artist living in São Paolo, Brazil, where he is part of Fabricio Grellet’s Magic Eye Studios. He has worked for Dark Horse on Grifter and The Mask, for Marvel on Wolverine and X-Force, and for the French publisher Semic.
 
 

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