Born in Charleston, South Carolina, James Oliver Rigney Jr. (1948-2007) wrote under the pen name Robert Jordan and became best known for the epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time. He served two tours as a U.S. Army helicopter gunner in Vietnam, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Bronze Star, then took a degree in physics from The Citadel and worked as a nuclear engineer for the Navy. A fall and a long convalescence in the late 1970s turned him toward writing full time. Before fantasy...
Chuck Dixon (born Charles Dixon, April 14, 1954, in Philadelphia) is an American comic book writer. He started in 1984 with Evangeline for Comico and went on to write Airboy for Eclipse Comics, where he also adapted J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit as a three-issue series with artist David Wenzel (1989 to 1990). His Punisher work at Marvel, including The Punisher War Journal, led to DC Comics, where he wrote Detective Comics from 1992 to 1999, took part in the Knightfall storyline and helped create t...
Andie Tong is a comic book artist celebrated for his contributions to major fantasy series, including Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time and his original work, The Dragon's Return. He's also a prominent artist in the superhero genre, having illustrated titles like Batman Classic and Nightmare in Gotham City.