Brian Alan Ellis (author), an official card-carrying member of the KISS Army, is the author of The Mustache He's Always Wanted but Could Never Grow and 33 Fragments of Sick-Sad Living. He currently "sick-sad" lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his lovely girlfriend and their moody-ass cat. Waylon Thornton (illustrator) is a guitar man and artist, native to the North Florida town of Lake Butler, where he lives with his wife, Meg, and son, Dex Wray. He is a firm believer in the power of the American cheeseburger, a cold Cherry Coke, and cheap guitars.