Artist Aleks Sennwald is a writer and storyboard artist for the smash-hit TV show Adventure Time. Her illustration clients include The New York Times, The New Yorker, Cricket Magazine, and more. The Short Con is her first graphic novel. Writer Pete Toms is the Ignatz-nominated cartoonist known for his sardonically humorous comics ON HIATUS, IN POST (selected as a notable comic in the Best American Comics 2015) and others, which deftly walk the line between contemporary and science fiction.