Fred Van Lente is a six-time New York Times bestselling comics writer, novelist and playwright whose work spans mysteries to historical fiction to superheroes to comedy. His thriller novels are Ten Dead Comedians, The Con Artist and Never Sleep. He is especially qualified to write Murder Kingdom because he spent a summer during college as a fry cook at an amusement park, although he has not, to his knowledge, ever killed anybody.

Chris Panda is a French illustrator and comic book artist who works as a cover artist and interior artist in a variety of genres, including science fiction, thriller, and horror. During the seven years he has worked as a comic book artist he has had the opportunity to work on such amazing licenses as Transformers, Star Trek, Micronauts, Rom, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, and Archie. He has also developed multiple creator-owned books as well.