Now is the Time of Monsters

Susan Simensky Bietila has been an artist and activist since the 1960s. She did artwork for The Guardian&;the radical newsweekly during the Vietnam war&;and the 2nd Wave Feminist underground newspaper Rat and has continued to do art and activism ever since. She has been active against mining in Wisconsin and in support of Public Education. Presently she is creating art for C.A.R.S.(Citizens Acting for Rail Safety) Milwaukee.

Kevin Pyle is an illustrator and cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Op-Ed page, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, The National Law Journal, The Progressive, Adbusters and numerous other publications.He has taught comics, illustration and the cultural history of monsters in a variety of school environments and grade levels. He lives with his wife and son in a creaky house somewhere just past the swamps of Jersey.

Rebecca Migdal is an author and an interdisciplinary artist working in new and traditional media. She has worked as a filmmaker, designer, teacher and performer, and is currently writing her second novel. She is the creator of the graphic novel Zombie Punk (Mythoprint Publishing, 2015).

Jordan Worley is an illustrator and cartoonist who was active with many radical movements in the 1990s including the Lower East Side Squatters, Red Anarchist Skin Heads and Anti-Fascist Action.