Monstress, Vol. 1

Marjorie Liu is an American novelist and comics writer, born in Philadelphia and raised in Seattle. She studied East Asian Studies and Biomedical Ethics at Lawrence University and earned a law degree at the University of Wisconsin, and practiced law before writing full-time. She is known for the Dirk & Steele and Hunter Kiss paranormal romance and urban fantasy series, for Marvel work including X-23, NYX, Dark Wolverine and Astonishing X-Men, and for Monstress, the Image Comics series drawn by S...

Sana Takeda is a Japanese illustrator and comic artist, born in 1977 in Niigata and based in Tokyo. She began as a 3D CGI designer for Sega before becoming a freelance illustrator. She co-created X-23 art for Marvel with writer Marjorie Liu before the two launched the creator-owned series Monstress in 2015, blending Japanese woodblock and yokai art influences with manga and Western comics style. Monstress has won multiple Eisner and Hugo Awards, and Takeda was named a Hugo Award-winning Best Pro...