Editor
Raised in rural Louisiana, Philip Simon headed to the Pacific Northwest after college and has been with Dark Horse Comics since early 2000, editing horror and sci-fi manga titles such as Blood+, Eden, MPD-Psycho, Octopus Girl, and Who Fighter. Philip helped launch Dark Horse's manhwa line and is currently co-editing Dark Horse's Mangettes program, featuring CLAMP. His wide range of projects over the years has included art books, a superhero series, more manga titles (such as the multiple award-winning Blade of the Immortal), archival collections, and adaptations of The Evil Dead and Pigeons from Hell. He is also Dark Horse's Robert E. Howard line editor, currently steering Conan the Cimmerian, Kull, and Solomon Kane. He digs zombies.
Author/illustrator Lynn Cesar is a native of New York City, having studied fine art and illustration there. Her first mature work was in holography, producing several of the field's first animated holograms (including one of a pterodactyl flying at the viewer through the film plane).
Shawna Gore has been working at the Dark Horse Comics factory of joy and entertainment since 1997. After serving as Dark Horse's publicist for five years, she left the comics industry and briefly flirted with a career in music before regaining her sanity and accepting an offer to rejoin the Dark Horse staff as an editor.
Scott Connors has been twice nominated for the International Horror Guild Award for his scholarly and critical writings. Along with Ron Hilger, he is editing the definitive edition of Smith's fantastic tales for Night Shade Books, the fourth volume of which is now at the printers.
Robert M. Price has been nursing an unwholesome obsession with the work of H.P. Lovecraft for some forty years now, having discovered the Old Gent's tales in their Lancer paperback incarnation.
Ron Hilger is a Northern California native who has organized such Clark Ashton Smith related events as "The CAS Centennial Conference" in 1993 and "The CAS Plaque Dedication" in 2002. Hilger has also edited, with Scott Connors, Red World of Polaris (Night Shade Press, 2003) and The Averoigne Chronicles, currently in preparation from Donald M. Grant Publishers.
Jovanka Vuckovic is the Editor-in-Chief of Rue Morgue Magazine, the world's leading horror in culture and entertainment publication. She has been featured as a genre expert on many documentaries and television shows and has contributed essays to several publications and books on the subject of genre cinema. Vuckovic bleeds horror and adores H.P. Lovecraft so much she even has a portrait of him tattooed on her flesh.
Scott Allie writes and edits for Dark Horse Comics and Glimmer Train Press. His writing includes the horror comic The Devil's Footprints, set in his hometown of Ipswich, Mass.—with a sequel coming in 2008—and the forthcoming Solomon Kane series. Other work includes tributes to H.P. Lovecraft, contributions to Star Wars comics and Buffy the Vampire Slayer prose, and a series of self-published horror comics called Sick Smiles, from Aiiie! Comics.
