LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Angie Wang is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Los Angeles. She is a co-founder of the annual comics festival Comic Arts Los Angeles.

Aisha Franz is a German illustrator and comic book artist. The daughter of Colombian-Chilean immigrants, she was born in Fürth. Franz originally wanted to be a figure skater and create animated drawings for Walt Disney. She went on to study illustration at the School of Art and Design... Read More →

Gareth Hinds is the acclaimed creator of the graphic novels "The Odyssey," "Poe," "Beowulf," "Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet," "The Merchant of Venice," and "King Lear." His latest graphic novel adaptation, "The Iliad," was released in March. He lives near Washington, D.C.

Michelle Perez is a writer who started out doing games criticism and humor with the now defunct Medium Difficulty blog. She has been a D.I.Y. writer, mainly done physical labor: factory work, day labor, and at one point political cold calling. I've been all over America and experienced... Read More →

"Terminal Lance Ultimate Omnibus" was written and illustrated by infantry Marine and Iraq veteran Maximilian Uriarte, creator of the hit comic strip "Terminal Lance." Uriarte enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 2006 at the age of 19 and served for four years. During his... Read More →