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Larry Hancock was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1954. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Mathematics and since then has toiled in Toronto as a Chartered Accountant. However, counter to the view of accountants as boring, he has written The Silent Invasion and The Purple Ray with Michael Cherkas and Suburban Nightmares with Cherkas and John van Bruggen. He enjoys reading mysteries, science fiction, and comic books (as if you could not guess!). Michael Cherkas was born in Oshawa, Ontario in 1954. He has worked for over 30 years as a graphic designer, art director, cartoonist, and illustrator. He still enjoys using non-repro blue pencils, brush, India ink and paper when making comics. His other comics include Suburban Nightmares (with Larry Hancock and John van Bruggen), The Purple Ray (with Larry Hancock), and The New Frontier (with John Sablic). He's been watching the skies for UFOs since he was wonder-struck boy and looks forward to his first sighting.
"""Cherkas' artwork was irresistible in its simplicity, clarity, and attention to detail. A send-up of fifties film classics like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and I Married a Monster from Outer Space, all of which terrorized my childhood just the way I love to be terrorized."" Frank Miller (Dark Knight, Sin City) from his introduction to the book ""These big people with little heads lumbering through starkly black and white landscapes touched with occasional ambiguous gray inhabit a nightmare world that is all the more frightening because it is recognizably our own."" Max Allan Collins, thriller writer, Road to Perdition, from his foreword. ""This comic has it all: great plotting, humor, suspense and excellent, stylized black & white drawings.""--Publishers Weekly ""This reissue of a cult classic sci-fi mystery that touches upon deep state conspiracies and fake news remains incredibly relevant."" -School Library Journal ""Riveting to the last page and highly recommended!"" -Midwest Book Review ""Like the greatest episodes of The Twilight Zone, The Silent Invasion mashes together the earthbound fears of a particular time with a threat from the outside to make an argument about the world around us."" - William Kulesa, NJ.com/Jersey Journal"
