JLA: Pain of The Gods - Main Creators

Main Creators

• Chuck Austen(Writer)- Chuck Austen wrote comic books for several years during the early part of this new millennium. He wrote some forty issues of various X-Men titles, more than a dozen Superman stories, JLA: Pain of The Gods, Captain America, US War Machine, and many, many others, including his own creation: Boys of Summer, a manga with TokyoPop. He left the industry to write novels, and screenplays. Chuck also co-created the hit television series Tripping The Rift, which won the Playboy Animation Festival Grand Prize. Boys of Summer was named one of the top ten manga for 2006 by Publishers Weekly, and Chuck is the only comic book writer ever to win the Genesis Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. Before that, he worked for many years on the popular, animated television series King Of The Hill as well as the first two seasons of The Cleveland Show, for FOX. He currently works at Nickelodeon on a CG animated comedy series debuting Fall of 2011, Robot and Monster.He has two new novels currently in the works, one to be released before end of July 2011, 'Something Old, Something New', and a sequel to Nekkid Bottoms called 'Pride and Nakedness'. He lives in Los Angeles with his lovely wife, lovely son, two lovely daughters, lovely dog, and not-so lovely expanding waistline.
• Ron Garney - has been a professional comics illustrator since 1989. Over the course of his established career he has made a name for himself tackling some of the industry's greatest characters such as the Incredible Hulk and Silver Surfer, X-Men, JLA and most notably Captain America. He has been listed in Wizard Magazines 'top ten' artists, and has been nominated twice for the industry's coveted Eisner award, for best penciler and best serialized story for Captain America with Mark Waid.