Stephen Connor is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of State Violence at Nipissing University (ON, Canada). His research and publications are focused on popular culture, war comics, collective memory, and representations of conflict.

Harriet E.H. Earle is Senior Lecturer in English and Film at Sheffield Hallam University and Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of State Violence at Nipissing University (ON, Canada). She is the author of Silence in the Quagmire: US Comics of the Vietnam War (2025), Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War (2017), and Comics: An Introduction (2020).