Sean Michael Wilson is a comic book writer from Scotland, now living in Japan. His published works include a graphic novel version of A Christmas Carol ("Best of 2008," Sunday Times), AX: alternative manga ("Best ten books of 2010," Publishers Weekly), Parecomic (with an introduction by Noam Chomsky), and an acclaimed manga version of the Japanese classic The Book of Five Rings. Piarelle (a.k.a. Pamela Lokhun) is a British comic artist/illustrator based in London. Her work has won various competitions (notably shortlisted in the UK's annual Manga Jiman competition), been featured in NEO magazine, and has even been exhibited as far as Tokyo, Japan. Nami Tamura, a manga artist from Japan, is now living in the United Kingdom. As a young artist, she received three prizes from the famous Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Kodansha, and she went on to work with Shogakukan on some of their weekly magazines. She now works as a freelance artist.