Philadelphia artist, musician, and scholar Justin Duerr is best known for his research documented in the 2011 Sundance award-winning documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. The term obsessive is very often employed in describing both his artwork and his unflagging commitment to research. His devotion to this project has been characteristically all-consuming. By following every possible lead and dissecting every available trace of Herbert Crowley around the world, he has managed to uncover a remarkable story, resurrect a lost piece of art history, and unearth the heart-stopping artworks of a true forgotten visionary. The rediscovery of Herbert E. Crowley is the second major research undertaking of Duerr’s life.
Josh O'Neill is the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning co-founder of the small presses Locust Moon and Beehive Books. An editor, author, educator, curator, journalist and publisher, O'Neill has created books and articles for clients including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Atlantic, Dark Horse Comics, Toon Books, IDW and Amazon. He is also a former retailer who ran a comic shop and annual comics festival in West Philadelphia. The City Paper wrote that "you can't talk about Philadelphia comics without talking about Josh O'Neill."
Locust Moon's Joshua O'Neill, Andrew Carl, and Chris Stevens originally published Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream as a broadsheet-sized collection of 116 homages to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo. O'Neill, Carl, and Stevens are the owners of the Locust Moon comic shop in Philadelphia and also host the annual Locust Moon Comics Festival.
Francoise Mouly is the editorial director of TOON Books and art director of the New Yorker.
Art Spiegelman is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS, A Survivor's Tale.
