Casey, Joe: - Man of Action Entertainment, the bi-coastal creative studio started in 2000, created the megahit Ben 10 and Generator Rex for Cartoon Network. Man of Action, a writers collective, served as co-executive producer and writer for Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man and is currently an executive producer/writer for Marvel's Avengers Assemble on Disney XD. Man of Action Entertainment consists of creators Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau and Steven T. Seagle. Disney/Marvel's Academy Award(R)-winning feature Big Hero 6 utilized the characters and team created by Man of Action as credited in the main titles. The film marked the first time Disney turned Marvel comic book characters into an animated film and is also the first film based on a comic book I.P. to win an Academy Award(R). The quartet collectively worked on the largest franchise characters in comics from Superman to X-Men before refocusing on creating their own original worlds/characters for their comic books and graphic novels published through their Man of Action imprint at Image Comics. In comics, Casey is known for his Eisner Award-nominated cosmic superhero epic, Gødland. His critically acclaimed run on the series Wildcats and Automatic Kafka landed on numerous "best of the decade" lists. His genre-busting cult-favorites Officer Downe and Butcher Baker The Righteous Maker helped propel him onto MTV.com's list of the 10 best writers of 2011. In 2013, Casey launched new titles on the Man of Action imprint at Image Comics: Sex, a current critically-acclaimed series, originally previewed in Playboy, and his series The Bounce, now available as a graphic novel. Valhalla Mad debuted in May, 2015 from the man Comics Alliance described as "the most dangerous man in comics." In 2013, Casey created a one-shot comic, Modern Romance, for the prestigious 60th Anniversary issue of Playboy. Officer Downe is currently in post-production as a feature film with Casey as screenwriter/producer. Man of Action Entertainment is also producing the feature film I Kill Giants. Man of Action Entertainment will also be creating/writing/producing a new Mega Man animated series with 26 episodes in 2017 for Dentsu and Capcom and they are also returning to their original creation as Executive Producers of a new Ben 10 series for Cartoon Network. If you want to know more about Man of Action, you can follow them at their not-so-secret headquarters on the Web: http: //www.ManOfAction.tv
Messina, David: - After he graduated in artistic study, Messina worked in animation and graphic advertising as a visualizer. Since 2005, he has been working for the American comic-book market, mostly for IDW Publishing, for which he drew four Angel limited series (The Curse, Old Friends, Auld Lang Syne, Smile Time) as well as some related one-shots.
With writer Scott Tipton, he worked on four
Star Trek limited series:
Klingons,
Intelligence Gathering,
Mirror Image, and
Spock; along with assorted other
Star Trek-related covers and one-shots. Messina also he drew
Star Trek: Countdown and
Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness, the prequels to the J.J. Abrams movies, and the tie-in
Star Trek: Nero and
Star Trek: Khan. Messina also illustrated the launch of the
True Blood comic series, the crossover books
Infestation and
Infestation II with Abnett & Lanning, and Ryall and Swierczynski.
For Marvel Comics, Messina drew
Ultimate Spiderman; Ultimate Comics Wolverine: Legacies; Wolverine and the
X-Men; Uncanny X-Men; the relaunch of
Cloak & Dagger with Dennis Hopeless; and
Ironheart 2020. Alongside Man of Action's Joe Casey, Messina co-created for Image Comics a series called THE BOUNCE. For DC Comics, he did the art on
Catwoman;
Action Comics; Midnighter; Wonder Woman; and
Red Hood: The Outlaws. Of late, he worked on the relaunch of
ROM the Space Knight, alongside Paolo Villanelli, Chris Ryall, and Christos Cage; and he drew the
Star Trek event series,
The Q Conflict. In addition to 3KEYS, Messina is currently working on Marvel's
Han Solo & Chewbacca series with writer Marc Guggenheim.
