Hugh A. O'Neill, Jr. was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. After the War he'd graduated from UC- Berkeley and worked as a journalist and newspaper editor. He also worked as a public information official for the Mayor of Honolulu and the Dept. of Defense in Washington, DC. O'Neill died of natural causes at the age of 80 in Port Townsend, Washington on September 28, 2001. Gary Dumm has many hundreds of illustration credits, most notably his extensive work with Harvey Pekar on American Splendor. Dumm's illustrations have also appeared in Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and La Monde. He also illustrated "Fire On The Water", the 2020 graphic novel, he'd collaborated on with author, Scott MacGregor. Today, he remains one of Cleveland's busiest illustrators. Scott MacGregor has been writing graphic stories for several decades, and is the author of "Fire On The Water" (Abrams ComicArts-2020), a critically acclaimed graphic novel about a major Cleveland indus- trial accident. He is also an award- winning photographer of Ireland and his photographs and articles have illuminated the pages of several magazines and periodicals.