Christoph Niemann, born in Waiblingen in 1970, is an illustrator, graphic designer and (co)author of various books. His work has graced more than twenty New Yorker covers since 1998, with illustrations appearing in Atlantic Monthly and New York Times Magazine. He was inducted into the ›Art Directors Club Hall of Fame‹ in 2010. Christoph Niemann lives in Berlin with his wife and their three sons.

Nicholas Blechman was born in 1967 in New York and is an illustrator and graphic designer. Since 1990, he has published the political underground magazine Nozone. Nicholas Blechman lives in New York and is art director of the New York Times.