Work for a Million (Graphic Novel)

AMANDA DEIBERT is a New York Times bestselling comic book and television writer. Her comic book writing includes the New York Times bestselling series DC Super Hero Girls, Teen Titans Go!, Wonder Woman ’77, Batman and Harley Quinn, Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman, Wonder Women of History, Flash Facts, The Doomed and The Damned, and Love is Love (NYT #1 Bestseller) for DC Comics, stories in John Carpenter’s Tales for A Halloween Night volumes 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 for Storm King Comics, and various other comics for Dark Horse and IDW. Her television credits include work for CBS, SyFy, OWN, PIVOT, HULU, QUIBI, and four years as the writer for former Vice President of the United States Al Gore on his international climate broadcast, 24 Hours of Reality. She is currently writing for the animated series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for Netflix. She lives in Los Angeles with her wife, illustrator Cat Staggs, and their adorable daughter, Vivienne.

EVE ZAREMBA is the author of six mystery novels featuring lesbian P.I. Helen Keremos. Active in the Women’s Liberation Movement in the seventies and eighties, Zaremba was a founding member of the Broadside Collective, which produced a monthly feminist paper in Toronto from 1979 to 1989. She has written articles and reviews in a number of other publications. In 1972, Zaremba selected and edited an early work of feminist non-fiction, The Privilege of Sex: A Century of Canadian Women (Anansi).Born in Poland, Zaremba emigrated to Canada in 1952 after a stint in the United Kingdom; she graduated from the University of Toronto in 1963. Over the years, Zaremba has made a living in advertising, marketing, real estate, and publishing. While writing two of her novels, she ran a used bookstore in Toronto. Zaremba is a long-standing member of The Writers Union of Canada. She lives in Toronto with her spouse, Ottie Lockey, a filmmaker, arts consultant, and coach. Lockey commissioned the graphic novel adaptation of Work for a Million in 2017 and guided its development through a Kickstarter campaign and eventual publication by McClelland & Stewart.

SELENA GOULDING is a Canadian illustrator and comic book artist from Vancouver Island, currently living in Toronto. A graduate from the Sequential Arts Program at Toronto’s Max the Mutt Animation School, she is best known for her work on young adult indie comics such as Cobble Hill, publishing with 215 Ink. Susanna Moodie: Roughing It in the Bush was her first full-length graphic novel, based on a story by Carol Shields and published by Second Story Press in 2016. Her illustration work has also been showcased in the Dark Horse Comics anthology The Secret Loves of Geek Girls.