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Ogden Whitney (1918-1972) was a writer and comic book artist who was most active between the late 1930s and the late 1960s. He is best known for his cult hit Herbie comics series, a superhero satire about a fat boy with superpowers. He also drew crime, sci-fi, adventure, and Western-themed comics. In 2007, he was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.Dan Nadel is a writer, editor, and currator.He is the author and editor of several books, including The Collected Hairy Who Publications; Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries, 1900-1969; Gary Panter; Art in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980; and Dorothy and Otis: Designing the American Dream. Dan was the co-editor of The Comics Journal from 2011 through 2017, and has published essays and criticism in Art in America, the New York Review of Books, and Artforum. He lives in Brooklyn.Frank Santoro is the author of Pompeii and Storyville. He taught drawing at Parsons School of Design and his comics have been exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York and at the Fumetto comics festival in Switzerland. Today, he runs a school for comic book makers. He lives in Pittsburgh. Liana Finck is a cartoonist for The New Yorker and the author most recently of Passing for Human. She lives in Brooklyn.