Ed Brisson is a comic book writer who first started to garner attention with his self-published crime series MURDER BOOK. He broke into the public spotlight in 2012 with the crime/time-travel thriller series COMEBACK (Shadowline/Image Comics). In the short time since then, he's written and co-created four other series published by Image: SHELTERED, THE FIELD, THE MANTLE and THE VIOLENT. Ed has also written for BOOM, DC, IDW and many others. Alessandro Micelli began working in comics with Italian publishers Coniglio Editore and Renoir Comics. He has also worked in video games and with television production companies as a concept artist. He is a member of the comics group Brand New Nostalgia, with which he published KaboomBox, a collection of short stories. The Ballad of Sang is Micelli's debut in the American comics market.