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About the Author

David Hine has written extensively for mainstream comics, including X-MEN and SPIDER-MAN for Marvel, BATMAN and GREEN LANTERN for DC, and JUDGE DREDD for 2000AD. For Image Comics, he created the critically acclaimed THE BULLETPROOF COFFIN (with Shaky Kane) and STORM DOGS (with Doug Braithwaite). He has delivered workshops on writing graphic novels in Singapore, Greece and throughout the UK, and is a visiting lecturer at VIA University College in Denmark. His Marvel book, DAREDEVIL: REDEMPTION, was nominated for the prestigious Harvey Award in 2006. He collaborated with Mark Stafford on the British Comic Award-shortlisted THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, adapted from Victor Hugo's novel. Mark Stafford has been called "the greatest comics artist you've never heard of" by comics website BLEEDING COOL. He collaborated with Costa Award-winning graphic novelist Bryan Talbot on CHERUBS! (Dark Horse) and with the poet Ravi Thornton on HOAX: PSYCHOSIS BLUES. Aside from comics, he has worked with actors and puppeteers to create theatrical posters and programmes, and with borough councils and libraries to create a mural and information graphics. Stafford has been the Cartoon Museum's cartoonist-in-residence for over ten years, running workshops, fun days and demonstrations. He collaborated with David Hine on the British Comic Award-shortlisted THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, adapted from Victor Hugo's novel.