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Drew Friedman's work has appeared in The New York Times, Mad, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and many other magazines. He is the author of several collections of comics and cartooning, including All the Presidents, Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix, Old Jewish Comedians, and Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental. He resides in Pennsylvania with his wife and collaborator, Kathy Bidus, and their beagles.


Born in Brooklyn and raised in suburban New Jersey, Kevin Dougherty has been a film and comic book fanatic from an early age. After a stint at New York's School of Visual Arts, Dougherty got a job at a local cable company, directing commercials for pizza parlors and cell phone stores. He wrote and directed “Fuzzball” for Nickelodeon's animated series Ka-Blam! long before YouTube, and he created Juanita & the List, an early web cartoon that racked up more than a million views. While a freelance producer at Byron Preiss Multimedia, he enlisted illustrator Drew Friedman to handle art duties for My Cool Diner, an interactive kids’ game that was released by Simon and Schuster in 1997. Gilbert Gottfried, Billy West, and Uncle Floyd Vivino also lent their talents to the game.

Owen Kline is a filmmaker and actor known for his directorial debut FUNNY PAGES (2022) and his performance as Frank Berkman in Noah Baumbach’s THE SQUID & THE WHALE (2005). He lives in New York City.





Frank Santopadre has created comedy material for Bill Murray, Howard Stern, Sarah Silverman, Meryl Streep, Martin Short, Ben Stiller, Nathan Lane, Jane Lynch, and the Boston Red Sox, among others. He’s written award shows (Daytime Emmys, TV Land Awards, Writers Guild Awards), roasts, and talk shows (The View, The Joy Behar Show, The Howard Stern Show) and his work has been seen on ABC, CBS, HBO, ESPN, MTV and quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, People, US Weekly, and Politico.

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