Melissa DeJesus
Melissa DeJesus has been drawing her entire life. By high school she was filling up a sketch pad a month and had found herself a new artistic style to work in: manga, the art of Japanese comics!

Melissa attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she became a founding member of the all-girl illustration and design studio Estrigious.com. After self-publishing for a time, Melissa and Estrigious were hired to do the animation in the 2001 indie-comedy smash "Super Troopers."

Since graduating SVA in 2002 with a B.A. in animation, Melissa has become the artist for the increasingly popular "Sokora Refugees" series of American-manga graphic novels. It was these graphic novels which prompted King Features Syndicate to bring Melissa on board as the artist for the My Cage comic strip.

Ed Power
Prior to King Features Syndicate picking up his comic strip My Cage (as part of a charity/prison release program), absolutely nothing interesting ever had happened to Ed. Ever.

His prior writing credits include grocery lists, a few dozen fan letters to one Miss Jessica Simpson, some bad checks to his local grocery store, and (most recently) a reply to a cease and desist letter from the lawyers for one Miss Jessica Simpson.

Ed likes pizza. He tries to eat it as often as possible.