John’s film credits include writing, directing, producing, and animating.  In 1987 he and partner, Keith Alcorn, founded DNA Productions, Inc., a full service animation company based in Dallas, Texas, that currently produces 3D animation for feature films and television.  DNA has created animation for such projects as the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius feature film for Paramount, The Ant Bully feature for Warner Brothers, as well as the Adventures of Jimmy Neutron television series on Nickelodeon.

             In 1997 Davis wrote and directed the first all-3D animated special for primetime — Santa Vs. The Snowman.  It aired as an ABC Christmas special, and it won a Gold Award from the World Fest-Houston International Film Festival, as well as a Lone Star Award.  The film currently runs in IMAX 3D theaters during the Christmas season.  

             In 1999, Davis served as animation director for Fox’s Christmas special Olive the Other Reindeer for Simpson’s creator Matt Groening.  The project was produced at DNA Productions and earned Davis an Emmy nomination in 2000. 

             Davis is the creator of Jimmy Neutron.  Begun as a short film in 1995, he later wrote, directed, and produced the feature film, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, earning him an Academy Award nomination in the new Animated Feature category in 2002.  Davis was also creator and producer of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius television series.   

             His most recent project, the 3D animated feature film entitled The Ant Bully opened in theatres and in IMAX 3D on July 28, 2006.   John served as writer, director, and producer (along with producer Tom Hanks).  The film was produced for Hank’s Playtone Productions and Warner Brothers.

             John’s other writing assignments include the live-action script adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s The Star Beast for Warner Brothers in 2006.

             John A. Davis graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1984 with a BFA in film production, receiving the first ever Nash Clay Parsley award for outstanding graduating senior in film.  He currently resides in Dallas, Texas.

John Davis’s website can be found at www.dnahelix.com

Kevin was born on the year of 1957 in south central Oklahoma in quite close proximity to the geographical center of nowhere.  Shortly there after he grabbed a number two pencil and a Big Chief writing tablet and started reproducing the local wildlife.  That project continues to this day though the technique and tools have changed greatly.  Along the way Kevin earned a degree in Fine Arts with postgraduate additions and has studied under several internationally acclaimed artists.  Though his own studies are never completed he is an Oklahoma accredited art teacher and has taught high school art and vocational painting classes.  He also teaches private classes in painting, drawing, and Photoshop.  During the early eighties Kevin was a medalic art designer with Award Design Medals, Noble, OK.  While there he designed over 1,000 product lines of fashion art and a piece that headed into space on the ill-fated ‘Challenger’ space shuttle expedition.  Later Kevin became associated with Realm Press, a comics publisher in Michigan and worked there as artist and art director for their ‘Battle Star Galactica’ and ‘The Drakkon Wars’ licensed series.  In ’90 Kevin was a quarterly winner in the L.Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest and attended the Los Vegas awards presentations.  ‘My Star Press’ owned by ‘Star Trek’ writer and ‘Communicator’ fanzine editor Larry Nemecek, has commissioned Kevin to produce several Trek related art pieces over the years for their many publications.  In the late ‘90’s Kevin relocated to the heart of Hollywood and began work on a pre-syndication comic strip and discovered the emerging field of digital imaging.  While there he was a guest of several local conventions including LosCon, and the San Diego Comics Con.  After two more years of drawing comics Kevin was picked up by Warner Brothers Studios and was involved with some aspect of almost every motion picture produced by them between 2001 and 2006, including ‘The Matrix,’ Looney Toons, Back in Action,’ Last Samurai,’ The first four Harry Potter films, and ‘Batman Begins.’  Over this period Kevin has produced several magazine and paperback book covers and taken awards at convention art shows to numerous to mention.  For spare time hobbies he enjoys writing, sculpting, and being a fossil enthusiast.

At age eleven Lee Killough discovered and fell in love with SF/fantasy and Mysteries. Afraid of exhausting her favorite genres’ supply in her small hometown library, she began writing her own stories…and rather than chose between the genres, she combined them as much as possible. The habit has stuck. Approximately half of her sixteen novels are SF or supernatural mysteries or urban fantasies. Her first short story appeared in Analog in 1970, and she published her first novel in 1979. Her most recent books, published by Yard Dog Press, are an African fantasy, The Leopard’s Daughter, and a revised edition of Checking On Culture, an aid to building story backgrounds. Currently in progress is an urban fantasy.

J M McDermott lives in Benbrook, TX, though he still doesn’t quite understand how that happened. His first novel, LAST DRAGON, was #6 on Amazon.com’s Editors’ Picks for Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of 2008. His short fiction is appearing or forthcoming in Weird Tales Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and numerous other places.  When not writing, he can often be found staring off into space while humming video game theme songs.

The son of an inventor, Jerry is a Dallas area author whose writing credits include a SF novel (Travels, published by Grand Central Publishing) and dozens of short stories found in such magazines as Aboriginal Science Fiction. He also runs GroovyMojo Media, which publishes Dark Energy SF as well as Quantum Kiss.

Jerry Davis’ website can be found at http://www.jjdavis.net.