SHERBAN (rhymes with "bourbon") has often been called the next P. G. Wodehouse, or at the very least the current Sherban Young. He is an avid tournament poker player, an avid cash game poker player and would be an avid good-deal-many-other-things if he didn't spend so much of his time avidly playing poker.

KATERINA wanted to be an archaeologist, or wildlife photographer, or maybe explorer — then reasoned that as an illustrator you can still have fun while getting mauled by tigers a lot less. In her free time, she likes taking failed pictures of wildlife on her walks and painstakingly learning languages she has little intention of speaking.