Fred Van Lente is a six-time New York Times bestselling comics writer, novelist, and playwright whose work spans mystery/thrillers to historical fiction to superheroes to comedy. Van Lente burst onto the scene with his first collaboration with cartoonist Ryan Dunlavey, Action Philosophers, which became a YALSA Best Book for Teens, a 2025 Ringo Award nominee for Best Humor Comic, and which the New York Times called "intensely goofy but intellectually rigorous”. From there he went on to a long career at Marvel, where he worked on titles like The Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America, and Marvel Zombies. He’s also written for DC, Archie Comics, Dark Horse, BOOM! Studios, Dynamite Comics, and Valiant, where his run on Archer & Armstrong was nominated for a Harvey Award for Best Continuing Series.
Luca Pizzari was lured by Italian editions of Marvel superhero comics at a very early age and decided right there to make a living out of it, much to his mother's still-ongoing dismay. Since then, he has penciled and inked interiors and covers for books like Spider-Man, Conan, Weapon X, Star Wars, Thanos, Transformers, Moon Knight, G.I. Joe, and more, with the likes of major publishers like Marvel, IDW, and BOOM! Studios.
Fred Van Lente is a six-time New York Times bestselling comics writer, novelist, and playwright whose work spans mystery/thrillers to historical fiction to superheroes to comedy. Van Lente burst onto the scene with his first collaboration with cartoonist Ryan Dunlavey, Action Philosophers, which ...