Curt Pires is a bestselling writer, producer, and creative that splits his time between Calgary, Canada and Hollywood. He is the creator of hit series Youth and Wyrd, both of which are in development as scripted television series (at Amazon and FX, respectively), as well as a slew of other original series and graphic novels that have garnered critical acclaim. The founder of TECC CONTENT, a vertically integrated publishing and production house, Curt was named to the 2022 class of Forbes illustrious 30 under 30.

Jok was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in the seventies and has been working as a comic book artist since 1993. His work's been published in the USA (Image, Massive, Heavy Metal, Scholastic, Capstone, Bad Bug, Alien Books, Mad Cave and Deadsky), England (Markosia, David Lloyd¿s Aces Weekly), Italy, France (Mosquito, Delcourt), Spain, Germany (Splitter), Denmark, Cyprus, Canada, China, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. He runs a studio along with his comrades in arms since 2001, splitting his time amongst several endeavors, including work for hire projects, creator owned books, attending conventions all over the world and not missing a match of his weekly soccer with friends and colleagues.