Douglas Brode, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, film historian, and multi-award-winning working-journalist, teaches courses on various popular culture subjects at the Newhouse School of Public Communications, Department of Radio, TV and Film, at Syracuse University. The author of more than thirty-five books on the visual and performing arts, he regularly appears on national radio and TV shows as a special guest. Illustrator Joe Orsak is a graphic illustrator born in Syracuse, New York. He traveled the world as a youth, graduating from high school in Rome, Italy. He returned to the States in 1970 to attend Syracuse University, graduating in 1974. Working in advertising during the 1970s, Joe also started to develop his talents in graphic storytelling, which have been put to good use in a number of newspapers, comic books and graphic novels.