Johnny Gruelle was an American artist, magazine cartoonist, and writer of children's books, best known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. He was born in 1880 and died in 1938. Rick Marschall, called by BostoniaMagazine "perhaps America's foremost authority on popular culture," has written or edited more than 60 books. He co-founded Nemo: The Classic Comics Library and Hogan's Alley magazines and is President of Rosebud Archives. He also has taught comics history at the School of Visual Arts and Rutgers University. Tony Millionaire is the creator of the award-winning weekly syndicated comic strip Maakies. His books include Billy Hazelnuts, Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird, Der Struwwelmaakies, Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury, Maakies with the Wrinkled Knees, Mighty Mite the Ear Mite, Premillennial Maakies, Little Maakies on the Prairie, The House at Maakies Corner, When We Were Very Maakies, 500 Portraits, and the Sock Monkey series of comics and storybooks. He lives in Maine.