Chris Ryall is the Chief Creative Officer at IDW Publishing and the co-creator of Zombies vs Robots with Ashley Wood. Ryall has also co-created and written Groom Lake, The Colonized, The Hollows, and Onyx, and has also written adaptations of stories by Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Richard Matheson. He is also the co-author of a prose book about comics, Comic Books 101, and has written comics based on the Transformers, the band Kiss, Mars Attacks, Weekly World News, and, Hasbro's Rom. Ryall and ZvR co-creator Ashley Wood were nominated for the 2006 Eisner Award for "Best Short Story." Christos Gage is a New York Times bestselling writer of movies, television, comics, graphic novels, and video games. He often collaborates with his wife, Ruth Fletcher Gage. Gage has written hundreds of comic books, working with nearly every publisher in the industry. For Marvel, he co-created Avengers Academy, writing the entire forty-issue run, and has also written such titles as Superior Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men Legacy, Avengers- The Initiative, Iron Man, X-Men/Spider-Man, Thunderbolts, and many more. He has also written for DC, IDW, Dynamite, Avatar , Valiant, and Wildstorm.