Tillie Walden is a cartoonist and illustrator from Austin, Texas. She is a graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies, where she now teaches. She has published three graphic novellas with London-based Avery Hill Publishing and On a Sunbeam and Eisner Award winners Are You Listening? and Spinning with First Second Books. She currently lives in Norwich, Vermont, with her cat, Stan.

Emma Hunsinger is a cartoonist from Connecticut. She started her career making New Yorker gags before getting her MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Her short comic "How to Draw a Horse" appeared in the New Yorker and was nominated for an Eisner Award. She currently lives in the Upper Valley, where she spends most of her time trying to stay warm.

"Deeply satisfying, all-too-real wallowing with an expressive character in full-throttle comic agony." --Publishers Weekly

"Textual and visual humor is on constant boil... Pair this with Liz Scanlon's Five Minutes for a witty dive into what kids endure in a trying adult world." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB)

"Accurately and humorously capture[s] the agony and interminability of waiting." --Booklist