About the Author: Brooklyn-based Meredith Gran is a cartoonist and teacher at the School of Visual Arts. Her long-running webcomic OCTOPUS PIE is known for its intense resonance and amazing levels of craft. Carey Pietsch is currently the co-adapter and artist on the Adventure Zone graphic novel series from First Second books. Books 1-6-- The Suffering Game, The Eleventh Hour, The Crystal Kingdom, Petals to the Metal, Murder on the Rockport Limited, and Here There Be Gerblins--are out in bookstores everywhere, and you can buy them online at theadventurezonecomic.com. Previously, she was the artist on the Mages of Mystralia webcomic, Lumberjanes Issues #29-32, and Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift. Her original comics Rift and The Witches' Daughters appeared in SOI's Comic & Cartoon Art Annual, 2015; Gleam was a part of the 2016 show. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including Chainmail Bikini, Oath, 1001 Knights, Blood Root, and Terrestrial. When she's not making comics, she's probably playing a tabletop game, collecting more plants, or working on a goofy podcast about Animorphs. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2010 and is now living in Brooklyn.

Format: Paperback | Pages: 744 | Publication Date: 2026-09-22