Taran Killam is an actor and writer best known for his six-year run as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. His other TV roles include New Girl, Scrubs, and How I Met Your Mother. He appeared in 12 Years a Slave, which won Best Picture at the 2014 Academy Awards. In January 2017, he took over the role of King George III in the Broadway hit Hamilton.

A comic-book fan, he had a cameo in 2014's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, wrote The Illegitimates with Marc Andreyko, and contributed to IDW Publishing's charity anthology Love is Love.

Marc Andreyko
 is a comic and television writer best known for ManhunterBatwoman, and Wonder Woman '77, all from DC Comics; The Illegitimates with Taran Killam, from IDW Publshing; and for organizing the Love is Love anthology, from IDW Publishing with DC, which raises money for the victims of the June 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando through Equality Florida.