Laurie Penny is a journalist, author, feminist, socialist, utopian, general reprobate and troublemaker. Lives in a little hovel room somewhere in London, mainly eating toast and trying to set the world to rights. Drinks too much tea. Has still not managed to quit smoking. Regular writer for New Statesman, the Guardian and the Independent. Author of Meat Market (Zer0 Books, 2011) and Penny Red (Pluto Press, 2011).

Molly Crabapple is a New York artist. She has created subversive, Victorian inspired art for The New York Times, Red Bull, the Royal Society of Arts, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Marvel Comics, and The Groucho Club, as well as Occupy Wall Street. Molly has been called ‘Equal parts Hieronymus Bosch, William S. Burroughs and Cirque du Soleil.’ by the Guardian, ‘A brilliant and principled artist’ by BoingBoing, and ‘A Downtown Phenomenon’ by the New York Times. Her publications include the digital graphic novel Puppet Makers (DC Comics, 2011), the art books Devil in the Details, Saints and Sinners and Week in Hell (IDW, 2012), and the graphic novel Straw House (First Second Books, 2014).