Phillip Kennedy Johnson is a trumpet player with the U.S. Army Field Band, and spends 100 days a year touring the country with the band. He holds a Masters degree in music, and has performed with prestigous orchestras and operas nationwide. He came to comics out of a passion for the medium. He writes the ongoing horror webcomic The Lost Boys of the U-Boat Bremen, as well as the comic strip BAND! on musicomic.com. He co-created Last Sons of America with artist Matthew Dow Smith. Matthew Dow Smith has drawn comics for every major American comic book publisher. His work has appeared in the pages of DC's Starman, Mike Mignola's Hellboy, Marvel's Nightcrawler, and Top Cow's Witchblade. A frequent artist on IDW's Doctor Who comic book, he has also written a series of Who short stories in the US and UK, including a special comic produced by the BBC America Shop for the 2011 San Diego Comic Con. He is also the author of the prose novel Night Folk. Most recently, his art can be seen in The X-Files (IDW).