David Huxley is a Senior Lecturer on the Film and Media Studies BA Hons at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has written widely on comics, including, ‘Naked Aggression: Comic Books and the Vietnam War' in J Walsh (ed) Tell MeLies About Vietnam, Open University Press, 1988, ‘Viz: Class, Gender and Sexuality' in S Wagg (ed) Because I Tell a Joke or Two, Routledge, 1997, and Nasty Tales: Drugs, Sex and Rock'n'Roll in British Underground Comics, Critical Vision Books, 2000. He has also written and drawn for a wide range of comics, including Ally Sloper (1976), Comic Tales (1981), Heavy Metal (1982), Pssst (1982) and Oink (1987-1988).

Joan Ormrod is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies BA Hons at Manchester Metropolitan University, teaching a range of units such as Graphic Novels and Comics, Fantasy in Popular Culture and Science Fiction. Her publications and conference presentations reflect her research interests in subcultural audiences, comics and cult films.  In 2009 she co-edited a book, On the Edge: Leisure, Consumption and the Representation of Adventure Sports.  She has published articles on cult films in Scope, and surfing subcultures in History of Sport, presented papers at comics conferences and co-hosted a conference on comics with David Huxley in September 2007.  In a previous life she published a number of scripts with Marvel UK.