JOE DEVITO is a lifelong Kong fanatic, as well as the co-writer and illustrator of the graphic novel Kong: King of Skull Island. He lives in Chalfont, Pennsylvania.
Co-writer BRAD STRICKLAND is best known for his young adult science fiction and fantasy work as well as co-writing Kong: King of Skull Island. He is a professor of English at Gainesville College and lives in Oakwood, Georgia.
Brad Strickland has written and cowritten forty-one novels, many of them for younger readers. He is the author of the fantasy trilogy
Moon Dreams,
Nul’s Quest, and
Wizard’s Mole, and the creator of the popular horror novel
Shadowshow. With his wife, Barbara, he has written for the Star Trek Young Adult book series, for Nickelodeon’s
Are You Afraid of the Dark? book series, and for
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (Pocket Books). Both solo and with Thomas E. Fuller, he has written several books about Wishbone, public TV’s literature-loving dog. When he's not writing, he teaches English at Gainesville College in Gainesville, Georgia. He and Barbara have two children, Amy and Jonathan, and a daughter-in-law, Rebecca. They live and work in Oakwood, Georgia.