The following individuals have generously contributed materials to teachingcomics.org

Jessica Abel
Jessica Abel's series, La Perdida, was published by Fantagraphics Books between 2000 and 2005 and then compiled as a hardcover graphic novel by Pantheon Books. She's also well known for her series Artbabe.

Ivan Brunetti
Ivan Brunetti is best known for his comic Schizo, published by Fantagraphics. He curated "The Cartoonist's Eye," an exhibit of 75 artists' work, for the A+D Gallery of Columbia College Chicago and edited The Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (Yale University Press).

Isaac Cates
Isaac Cates holds a Ph.D. in English from Yale University, where he currently teaches as a part-time lecturer.  He has taught courses on comics at Yale and at Connecticut College.  Cates has written on Rick Geary's and Jack Jackson's history comics, and on Daniel Clowes's serialized narratives, for the University of Florida conferences on comics, and has also published on contemporary poetry.

Douglas Fisher
Douglas Fisher is a Professor of Language and Literacy Education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University, the Co-Director for the Center for the Advancement of Reading at the California State University Chancellor’s office, and the past Director of Professional Development for the City Heights Educational Collaborative. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association Celebrate Literacy Award, the Farmer award for excellence in writing from the National Council of Teachers of English, as well as a Christa McAuliffe award for excellence in teacher education. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design as well as books and has taught a variety of courses in SDSU’s teacher-credentialing program as well as graduate-level courses on English language development and literacy.

Ellen Forney
Ellen Forney is a Seattle, Washington-based cartoonist whose work has been published by Fantagraphics Books and The Stranger. Her recent works include Monkey Food and I Love Led Zeppelin.

Nancy Frey
Nancy Frey is an Associate Professor of Literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University Before joining the university faculty, Nancy was a teacher in the Broward County (FL) Public Schools, where she taught students at the elementary and middle school level. She later worked for the Florida Department of Education on a statewide project for supporting students with diverse learning needs in general education curriculum. She is a recipient of the Christa McAuliffe award for excellence in teacher education from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Her research interests include reading and literacy, assessment, intervention, and curriculum design. She has co-authored several books on literacy. She teaches a variety of courses in SDSU’s teacher-credentialing program on elementary and secondary literacy in content area instruction and supporting students with diverse learning needs.

Tom Hart
Tom Hart is a cartoonist known both for his experimental work such as The Sands, as well as stories featuring his jobless, vagrant rebel, Hutch Owen. He has counted himself among the variety of singular cartooning movements that happened in Seattle, Boston, and Austin, Texas throughout the 1990s before settling in New York City in 2000. He was an early recipient of a grant from the Xeric Foundation, has done work for DC, Pulse, and Kodansha-Japan, and has been translated into numerous languages including an ongoing series of books in French. He teaches cartooning at School of Visual Arts in New York. His work can be seen at http://www.newhatstories.com.

Christian Hill
Christian Hill's passion for comic art dates back to his youth in France. Since 1995, Hill has freelanced as a graphic artist for clients such as the Smithsonian and Disney.  He now teaches illustration and comic art at California State University-Fullerton. As an advocate of comic art, he encourages its practice through workshops and events, and he promotes its appreciation through presentations and scholarly publishing. As a comic artist, he is working on graphic novels for children and adults. Kameleo Comics is publishing his first gallery comics.

Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins is currently Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and Co-Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program.

Matt Madden
Matt Madden's most recent work is the textbook 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style, a comics adaptation of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style. He also teaches comics at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Joel Priddy
Joel Priddy's illustration work has appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, and Cricket Magazine. In 2002 he won an Ignatz for his first graphic novel, Pulpatoon Pilgrimage. An Assistant Professor at Memphis College of Art, he teaches illustration and comics storytelling.

James Sturm
James Sturm is an internationally recognized cartoonist. He is cofounder and Director of The National Association of Comics Art Educators. His writings and illustrations have appeared in scores of national and regional publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Onion, The New York Times and on the cover of the The New Yorker. He is also a co-founder of The Stranger, a Seattle arts and news weekly. His book, The Golem's Mighty Swing, was named the 2001 Comic of the Year by Time Magazine and has been translated into three languages. He currently resides with his wife and daughters in Hartland, Vermont where he is the director or the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Ben Towle
Ben Towle is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist and freelance artist living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His comics works include Farewell, Georgia and Midnight Sun, both published by Slave Labor Graphics. He holds a MFA in sequential art from The Savannah College of Art and Design and B.A. in philosophy from Davidson College. He has taught at the North Carolina Governor's School and the Sawtooth Center for Visual Art, among other places. Homepage: www.benzilla.com.

Patrick Welch
Patrick Welch is currently a professor of Media Arts and Animation at the Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago, and was previously the chair of the Sequential Art department at the Savannah College of Art and Design in the 1990s.