Twain In The Membrane: A Comedy Party

Michael Kupperman is an American cartoonist and illustrator. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. His first book, Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret, was released in 2000 and portions were animated for Comedy Central's TV Funhouse. In 2009, Michael created the animated show Snake 'n' Bacon for Adult Swim and released his second book, Tales Designed to Thrizzle: Volume 1, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.

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Jon Glaser is the creator and star of the Adult Swim series Delocated. He is a five-time Emmy nominee with the writing staff of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and has appeared in the movies Pootie Tang, School for Scoundrels, and Be Kind Rewind,. He has also voiced a number of animated characters on such shows as Stroker and Hoop, Freak Show, and Lucy the Daughter of The Devil. Jon's first book, "My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top", was released this February by Harper Perennial.

Kate Beaton is an award-winning cartoonist best know for her wildly popular webcomic, Hark! A Vagrant. Beaton's self-published History Comics won the 2009 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent. Hark! A Vagrant was nominated for a Harvey Award for Best Online Comics Work in 2010, and Joe Shuster Awards in 2009 and 2010. Her work has been profiled in Wired, Macleans, and Comic Book Resources, and has appeared in the New Yorker. In June 2009 she released a book titled Never Learn Anything From History, and will be releasing a book this fall with Drawn and Quarterly.

David Rees used to be a political cartoonist. His work appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, The Nation, Harper's, and many other publications. He gave that career up to pursue his dreams...of artisnal pencil sharpening.

Dyna Moe is a long-time performer, teacher and director at UCB Theater. Her stage credits include many shows lost to the mist of time, such as Monkeydick (harold team), NeoTokyo Girl Crush! 2040 (anime on stage), and the improvised movie Feature Feature, which traveled to the mainstage of Chicago Improv Festival and into America's hearts. In October 2010, she wrote and illustrated Mad Men: The Illustrated World after gaining dubious internet fame as the official cartoonist to heady cable drama Mad Men

Max Silvestri is a comedian, writer and actor living in Brooklyn. New York Magazine called him one of the "Ten Comedians People Find Funny," which means at least one person who works at a magazine thinks he is funny. For a long time he hosted a popular video podcast for VH1 called "Best Night Ever," which was big with high school students and still gets him lots of unsettling Facebook requests. Max writes a weekly column about how much loves eating and drinking for the Onion's AV Club NY and also takes writing about "Top Chef" for the website Eater too seriously. He's also written for Gawker, the Huffington Post and other places. Along with Gabriel Delahaye, he makes videos as Gabe & Max for places like Details Magazine. Max has been in some TV commercials. He co-hosts Big Terrific, Time Out New York's Best New Variety Show, every Wednesday in Williamsburg alongside Gabe Liedman and SNL's Jenny Slate.

Emily Flake is an award-winning illustrator, cartoonist, and writer. Her work has appeared in Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Forbes, The Nation, and many others.