Gordon Rennie is one of 2000 AD's most prolific creators, with co-creative credits for Caballistics, Inc., Missionary Man, Necronauts, Storming Heaven, Rain Dogs and Witchworld. Rennie has written for Heavy Metal and Warhammer, as well as Species, Starship Troopers and White Trash.

Tiernen Trevallion has worked as an illustrator since he was convinced to leave school in the mid-eighties. His first comic commissions were for Inferno Magazine on the strip Tales from the Ten-Tailed Cat and Daemonifuge 3 with Simon Spurrier for Warhammer Monthly. For 2000 AD he has worked on several series including Tharg’s Terror Tales, Tharg’s Future Shocks, Tales from the Black Museum and Judge Dredd. As well as working with Gordon Rennie on Absalom, he has also worked with him along with Emma Beeby on the Graphic novel Robbie Burns: Witch Hunter. Tiernen also works as an illustrator and concept artist. He also works on his own projects, some of which may or may not involve angry puffins.