Alex Grand is an internationally established comics historian, founder of the Comic Book Historians, and a regular panelist at Comic Con International: San Diego, Wonder Con, and San Diego ComicFest. He has been featured in comics-based documentaries, television, and radio appearances and has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, The Comics Journal, The Jack Kirby Collector and Alter Ego. He lives in Sacramento, California.

Joshua S. Berman has been a part of the Seattle entertainment scene for his entire adult life, and arch-designer of the Washington cannabis industry, which went on to become the blueprint for legalization across the United States. He was co-founder for 4evergreen Group, founder of PDA Magazine and Lounge, and originator and operator of the Hash Agency, which is on the cutting edge of defining the industry on the West Coast, and now in New York.