Mike Cavallaro’s comics include Parade (with fireworks), a Will Eisner Award-nominee; The Life and Times of Savior 28, with Eisner Award-winning writer J.M. DeMatteis; and the Foiled series with Jane Yolen. Mike is an instructor at the School of Visual Arts and is the Vice-Chairman of the Manhattan Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society.
Adam Rapp is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His young adult novels include Missing the Piano, The Buffalo Tree, and 33 Snowfish, and his first adult was The Year of Endless Sorrows. Rapp directed his first film, Winter Passing, with Zooey Deschanel and Will Ferrell, in 2005.
Adam Rapp is an OBIE Award-winning playwright and director, as well as a novelist, filmmaker, actor, and musician. His play The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois had its world première last month at South Coast Repertory. His other plays include Red Light Winter (Citation from the American Theatre Critics Association, a Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best New Play, two OBIE Awards, and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize), Blackbird, The Metal Children, Finer Noble Gases, Through The Yellow Hour, The Hallway Trilogy, Nocturne, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, Animals and Plants, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Faster, Gompers, Essential Self-Defense, American Slingo, and Kindness. For film, he wrote the screenplay for Winter Passing; and recently directed Loitering with Intent. Rapp has been the recipient of the 1999 Princess Grace Award for Playwriting, a 2000 Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the 2001 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and Boston’s Elliot Norton Award; and was short-listed for the 2003 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, received the 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a 2007 Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, and the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Mike Cavallaro is from New Jersey and has worked in comics and animation since the early 1990s. His comics include Eisner Award–nominated
Parade (with fireworks),
The Life and Times of Savior 28 (written by J.M. DeMatteis),
Foiled and
Curses! Foiled Again (written by Jane Yolen),
Decelerate Blue (written by Adam Rapp), and the Nico Bravo series.