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J. Bone is an Eisner Award nominated Canadian comic book artist and writer who has worked on such titles as DC Comics' Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Super Friends. He was the inker on the Eisner Award-winning one-shot Batman/The Spirit. J.Bone's first published work was Solar Stella for Sirius Entertainment, for which he was nominated for an Eisner Award 2001 (Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition). In 2002, Oni published Alison Dare, co-created by J. Torres with art by J.Bone. He came by and we talked about everything from a Batman/Spiderman stand off to the changing role of women in comcs. Great chat with a great guy!

Francis co-writes The Flash for DC Comics as well as doing the penicls. Not only that, he's a great guy and has been a profound influence on how I approach working in comics. We talk about all kind of stuff including the introduction of Gorilla Grodd in the latest run of The Flash, to writing as a craft. And we even started discussing what it would take to get a big budget Justice League movie. I demand a big screen Booster Gold!

David Evans is an Associate Curator in Vertebrate Palaeontology and oversees dinosaur research at the ROM. He first laid eyes on dinosaur skeletons in the galleries of the ROM and has been fascinated with dinosaurs and palaeontology ever since. As an undergraduate student David spent several summers working as a field technician for the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, where he studied the duck-billed dinosaur Corythosaurus for his undergraduate thesis. David's doctoral dissertation analyzed skull growth and evolutionary relationships in crested hadrosaurs, with an emphasis on the striking diversity of these animals from Alberta, Canada.

Ray Fawkes is a prolific Canadian graphic novelist born in Toronto, Ontario. Some of his novels include Spookshow (2003), Pink (2006), The Apocalipistix (2008) and the ever popular, One Soul (2011). Ray's work is, to his fans and critics, incredibly introspective, dreamlike and bombastically slapstick. One Soul, arguably Fawkes' greatest work, is being praised for its poetic and often lyrical nature. Ray is also a two time Shuster Award nominee in the "Outstanding Canadian Writer" category, as well as a YALSA Award winner for his previous, "Posessions Book One: Unclean Getaway."

Dominik Diamond is a Scottish television and radio presenter and newspaper columnist. He is best known as the original presenter of Channel 4's video gaming programme GamesMaster, as host of The Dominik Diamond Breakfast Show on Xfm Scotland and as a columnist for the Daily Star. He is currently on air at Q107 in Toronto and is a columnist for The Chronicle Herald newspaper in Nova Scotia.

Scott Chantler is the Shuster Award-winning cartoonist of the graphic novels Two Generals, Northwest Passage, and the Three Thieves series. An acclaimed graphic novelist and illustrator he has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning excellence. He is the author of Northwest Passage, a multi-volume graphic narrative set in 1755 colonial Canada, and the artist of graphic novels including Days Like This, Scandalous, and Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen. He is also a popular commercial illustrator whose clients include McDonald's, Reebok, Macy's, the Toronto Star, the National Post, and Maclean's. When he's not doing either of those things, he teaches Writing for Graphic Novels at Max the Mutt Animation School in Toronto.

Paolo Rivera is an American, Marvel-exclusive comic book artist. He began his career in oil painting, but has since moved onto pencilling, inking, colouring and sculpting. As a graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003, he studied under David Mazzucchelli. He is best known for his work on Mythos, written by Paul Jenkins. However, he also done tremendous work on The Twelve, The Iliad, The Amazing Spider-Man and the Wolverine Art Appreciation Month series. Currently, he's working on Daredevil - check out his blog The Self-Absorbing Man for more about this amazing artist.

Phil Jimenez is an American comic book writer and artist. He's best known for his work on Wonder Woman (2000 - 2003), as part of the team that worked on Infinite Crisis and for his collaborations with Grant Morris on New X-Man and The Invisibles. He was a graduate of School of Visual Arts in New York, and when he was just 21 years old, he was hired by DC Comics Creative Director Neal Ponzer. Jimenez teaches a life drawning class as part of the undergrad program at the School of Visual Arts and recently, has been working on the cover for Star Trek/Legion of Superheroes.

Ottawa-native, Jim Zubkavich - or Jim Zub - is a freelance comic book artist best known for his work on Skullkickers and Makeshift Miracle. In addition to being an avid gamer, Zub is also an editor at UDON Entertainment which publishes comics and graphic novels based on games. In an interview with Comic Book Resources, Zub explained how the comic book industry is ever-changing: Once a comic book series is up and running, it's hard to keep audiences captivated on monthly issues. So, in light of that, Zub offers some of the early issues of Skullkickers online as a way to get more readers on board. Currently, Zub is working on Shifty Look - an experimental website by the video game/media giant Namco-Bandai.

Alberta-born artist and illustrator, Marcus To, is well known for his work on DC's Red Robin. After completing a one-year animation program in Vancouver, then a computer science degree, he started working at a photography studio in LA while trying to break into the comic industry. After receiving tremendous feedback on his work from the Wizard World convention and updating his current collection for the San Diego Comicon - Aspen Comics asked him to join them. In 2009, he moved to Toronto and started working with DC. The following year he joined R.A.I.D - The Royal Academy of Illustration and Design. Since his work on Red Robin concluded, he's been focusing on a project for the Green Lantern video game and and a mini series called Huntress. Follow Marcus on twitter @marcusto or on tumblr http://marcusto.tumblr.com/ to keep up with his craft.