Warren Ellis is the award-winning writer of graphic novels including TRANSMETROPOLITAN, FELL, INJECTION, MINISTRY OF SPACE, TREES and PLANETARY, and the author of the Amazon Top 100 book NORMAL, the NYT-bestselling GUN MACHINE and the “underground classic” novel CROOKED LITTLE VEIN. The movie RED is based on his graphic novel of the same name. He is the writer and co-producer of the Netflix series CASTLEVANIA.

Warren Ellis is a Visiting Professor to York St John University and an Honorary Doctor of the University of Essex.

He still lives in south-east England, for no good reason.

**Please note: Warren Ellis will be appearing for talks on the afternoons of Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd September, at this year's convention (final timings TBC), in the Carriageworks Theatre. These talks (and his appearance at the convention) will not include a signing session or meet and greet.

Entry to the talks will be included as part of a convention ticket on the day/s for which it is valid, but space in the venue is limited and allocated on a first come first served basis.

Lisa Wood, known by her pen name Tula Lotay, is an English comic book artist. She is best known for illustrating Supreme: Blue Rose, written by Warren Ellis for Image Comics and All Star Batman #7 with Scott Snyder. She was also an artist for Si Spencer's eight-part series Bodies for Vertigo.

She illustrated issue #13 of The Wicked + The Divine, which was published in 2015 and nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book.

Lotay and her Supreme collaborator Warren Ellis announced in 2015 that they were working on a new comic, Heartless which will be published by Image Comics in 2019. She has created several posters for the Austin poster company Mondo including a Wonder Woman one.

She lives in Yorkshire, UK.

*Tula Lotay will be signing on Table C in the comiXology Marquee, Millennium Square from 12.00 - 13.00 on the Saturday and Sunday of the convention.

Greg Rucka is the award-winning writer of numerous comics and novels, including a recent run on Wonder Woman for DC Comics with artist Liam Sharpe, as well as the Wonder Woman: Year One arc, illustrated by his Black Magick co-creator and sister-from- another-mother, artist Nicola Scott.

Along with Black Magick, he writes the series Lazarus (co-created by artist Michael Lark) and The Old Guard (with co-creator artist Leandro Fernandez), and is currently working on adaptations of both for Big Hollywood Types.

He lives in Portland, Oregon, amongst all the other comics professionals fighting over cups of coffee. He is happily married to a writer who is more talented than he is, named Jennifer Van Meter, and has two children, both who are better than he is in every way, and he has a dog. The dog always wins the fight for the covers.

Charlie Adlard has been a "veteran" of the comic industry for over 20 years. He's spent the majority of his time since 2004 working on The Walking Dead for which he has received many industry awards. In his time as a cartoonist he has worked on many other projects as far reaching as Mars Attacks, the X-Files, Judge Dredd, Savage, Batman, X-Men, Superman etc and creator-owned projects closer to his heart like Astronauts In Trouble, Codeflesh, Rock Bottom, and White Death.

He was born on the 4th August 1966 in the town of Shrewsbury, England and, having moved away to study film and video at art college,eventually moved back and still resides there today.

Before moving back to Shrewsbury, he spent a brief stint in London, finding out that the BA he'd earned at art college was pretty useless in getting a job in the film industry, and after failing to set the world alight playing the drums in a rock band, eventually settled on the "third" option, which was comics. An option he finally realised should have been number one right from the beginning.

After spending two years back in Shrewsbury, working on a portfolio, he eventually found his first work at the Judge Dredd Megazine in 1992 and hasn't looked back since.

Charlie is married with two children and one cat. Life is good…

Brian Stelfreeze is perhaps best known for his fifty consecutive cover illustrations on Batman: Shadow of the Bat. His cover work also include Detective, Batman Beyond, Legends of the Dark Knight,Birds of Prey, Catwoman, X-Men, Daredevil, and Amazing Spider-Man.

He also contributed interior pages to the Eisner Award-winning projects Batman: Black & White, and Wednesday Comics for DC, and was co-writer and artist on the Matador mini series for WildStorm Comics.

More recently he produced interior art for Hardcore from Top Cow, Jonah Hex For DC Comics, and Day Men BOOM! Comics.

He is currently providing covers for Marvel's ongoing Black Panther series.

Babs Tarr grew up in the sunny and beautiful Charleston, SC. She attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where she received her BFA in Illustration.

She has worked for Hasbro, Disney, DC Comics, Boom! Comics, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Brand X.

Babs is currently providing artwork for the Image Comics series Motor Crush, with co-creators Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher.