Masthead Jeff Mason | Publisher | e-mail Jeff Mason graduated from the College of Law at the University of Florida in 1997 and is law partner with Thomas Edwards, in Gainesville, Florida, handling matters related to criminal law. He is the Publisher of Alternative Comics and of Indy Magazine. Bill Kartalopoulos | Editor, Designer and Contributor | e-mail Bill Kartalopoulos, 29, is the sole proprietor of the "Egon" comics news and information website, located at http://www.egonlabs.com. He suffers under terrible perceived constraints and enjoys great privileges. He lives in Manhattan. Bart Beaty | Contributor | e-mail Bart Beaty is the coordinator of the Film Studies program at the University of Calgary. He completed his Ph.D. at McGill University, where he wrote his dissertation on the place of Fredric Wertham within the history of communications studies. He regularly contributes articles on European comics to The Comics Journal. Isaac Cates | Contributor | e-mail Isaac Cates earned his Ph.D. at Yale in 2002 and is now Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Poetry Center at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. He is writing a book on the graphic novel for Yale University Press. He has also written more than ten thousand postcards. Paul Gravett | Contributor Paul Gravett is a freelance journalist, curator, lecturer, and broadcaster who has worked in comics publishing and promotion for over twenty years. He has curated several exhibitions of comic art, from the history of British comics for France's National Comics Centre in Angoulême to the annual Comica Festival at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. He has written about comics for various periodicals, including The Guardian, The Comics Journal, Comics International and Blueprint. Charles Hatfield | Contributor | e-mail Charles Hatfield, Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, specializes in comics, word/image studies and children's literature. He has published widely in comics theory and criticism, and his book, Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, will be published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2005. Charles serves as Chair of the annual International Comic Arts Festival and is now editing, with Gene Kannenberg, Jr., and Joseph Witek, an essay collection on underground comix. Domingos Isabelinho | Contributor | e-mail Domingos Isabelinho is a comics critic living in Borba, Portugal. He contributed to the fanzines: Nemo, Quadrado, Satélite Internacional (Portugal) and The Comics Journal (U.S.A.). He also wrote the preface to Guido Buzzelli's book I Labirinti (Italy). (He's currently curating a Buzzelli exhibition in Lisbon.) His main interests are alternative comics from all over the world and those kinds of works that are on the fringe of the art form. Paul Karasik | Contributor Paul Karasik graduated from Pratt Institute in 1981 and studied at the School of Visual Arts with cartoonists Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, and Art Spiegelman. He was Associate Editor of RAW Magazine and published his own magazine, Bad News. In collaboration with artist David Mazzucchelli, he adapted Paul Auster's novel City of Glass as a graphic novel. The award-winning book was recently published in a new edition by Picador USA. Mr. Karasik's cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker and Nickelodeon magazines. He has taught cartooning at the School of Visual Arts, Packer Collegiate, and the Scuola de Comics in Florence, Italy. He presently lives on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts with his family. Megan Kelso | Contributor | e-mail Megan Kelso lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is working on a graphic novel called Artichoke Tales and also editing an anthology of female cartoonists called Scheherazade, due out in Oct. 2004 from Soft Skull Press. Mark Nevins | Contributor | e-mail International comics aficionado Mark David Nevins lives in New York City (Greenwich Village and Harlem), but you won't often find him there because his work and interests keep him travelling around the world. For the last 8 years he has served on the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Conference (ICAF), and he is also the "American Correspondent" for the renowned Swiss comics periodical STRAPAZIN. Mark took his Ph.D. in Literature from Harvard University and taught for a while before "selling out" to become a high-flying management consultant. Adam White | Contributor | e-mail Adam White was born in Juneau, Alaska. Since then, he has lived in Hong Kong, Beijing, Southern New Hampshire, Northern California, and Oregon. He has worked variously for a Chinese precious metals company, a pharmaceutical advertising agency, an insurance company, a mortuary service, and as an interpreter/translator. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where his hobbies include not watching a television and not owning a car. With special thanks to Tom Devlin, Brian Chippendale, Thierry Groensteen, the CNBDI, Thierry Smolderen, Damien Jay, art spiegelman, and the staff of the New York Public Library's Print Collection.