Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of several books including The Amistad Rebellion (Viking 2012) and The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Beacon 2000). He worked with David Lester and Paul Buhle to adapt his book The Fearless Benjamin Lay (2017) into Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, a Graphic Novel (Beacon, 2021) and Villains of All Nations into Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel (Beacon 2023).

David Lester illustrated the award-winning 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike. He illustrated Prophet against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, a Graphic Novel (Beacon, 2021) and Villains of All Nations into Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel (Beacon 2023). He is the guitarist in the rock duo Mecca Normal.

Paul Buhle is retired Senior Lecturer at Brown University and the authorized biographer of Pan African giant C.L.R. James. He has edited over a dozen nonfiction graphic novels, including Studs Terkel’s Working and A Peoples’ History of the American Empire (an adaptation of Zinn). He worked with David Lester and Marcus Rediker to produce Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, a Graphic Novel (Beacon 2021) and Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel (Beacon 2023). Buhle lives in Providence, Rhode Island.