Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Schwartz has written for "The New Yorker," "Vanity Fair," the 84th Academy Awards, "The Late Show" with David Letterman, and is currently working on a history of American humor set between the world wars.

Chaffee is a professional tattooist and comics artist. His previous books are "The Big Wheels" (1993), "The Most Important Thing & Other Stories" (1995), and "Good Dog" (2013). He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Haifisch was born in 1986 in Leipzig, Germany. She studied at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, and worked as a screen printer in New York. Since 2015, she has been drawing the series “The Artist” for VICE. The Artist collected stories are published by Breakdown Press. “The... Read More →

Kyle lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author of the graphic novels "Black Mass" (2012), "Distance Mover" (2014), and "Don't Come In Here" (2016). At the 2016 Doug Wright Awards, he won the Pigskin Peters Award for New Comics #6 and #7. “Don't Come In Here” is a finalist... Read More →