STEEPED IN LEGEND – YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC NOVELS

CONOR MCCREERY is the swashbuckling Canadian wordsmith behind the Kill Shakespeare series (IDW), an action-adventure take on the Bard’s characters that spawns six volumes, a stage play, and a board game. McCreery has told stories for brands like Adventure Time, Regular Show, Assassin’s Creed, and more. His latest projects include Fela: Music is the Weapon, the young adult adventure The Last Witch (BOOM!Box), the coming-of-age tale Status (Scholastic), and the horror-comedy Trickster (Twisted Publications!). He is also the co-creator of Embreate Productions' transmedia Science Fiction story-world, Future Now. He lives in France with his wife and three children.

GEORGE O'CONNOR is the New York Times bestselling author of the Olympians series, graphic novels that feature the tragic, dramatic, and epic lives of the Greek Pantheon and its counterpart series, Asgardians, which focus on the Norse gods. His first graphic novel, Journey into Mohawk Country, uses text from the actual historical journal of the 17-century Dutch trader Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert. O'Connor illustrated Adam Rapp’s Ball Peen Hammer and teamed up with writer Daniel G. Newman on Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy, the first volume in the World Citizen Comics series. He is also the creator of popular picture books such as the bestselling Kapow! and If I Had a Triceratops.

MAGGIE STIEFVATER is The New York Times bestselling author of the Shiver trilogy, Raven Cycle, and Scorpio Races series of books, among dozens of other young adult fantasy novels. Her latest books are The Listeners: A Novel (Viking), her adult debut, and a graphic novel adaptation of The Raven Boys. Stiefvater’s books have sold more than 5 million copies around the world.