The Creators
Tim Disney
is an artist and entrepreneur from Los Angeles. He has produced, written, or directed multiple award-winning feature films and documentaries, which have appeared at Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, and other festivals. He served as Chairman and CEO of Virtual World Entertainment, an early pioneer of VR-based entertainment systems, which was sold to Microsoft. Tim is an active investor in media and technology, and serves on multiple corporate boards, including Marginal Mediaworks, and Dragonfly Therapeutics. In the not-for-profit sector he is the founder of The Adamma Foundation, co-founder of World Connect, which makes micro grants to business start-ups and public health projects in thirty countries in the developing world. He served for 12 years as a Trustee of Southern California Institute of Architecture, and 29 years as a Trustee of CalArts, eight of them as Chairman of the Board. From 2021-2025, he served as Trustee and Board President of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and currently serves as a member of the Global Leadership Council of The World Resources Institute, and Director and Curator of the community art space @2413hyperion.
JC Lacek
JC Lacek is an Appalachian-born writer with an MFA in playwriting from San Francisco State University whose work spans graphic novels, theater, and commissioned screenwriting. Primarily working in the graphic novel medium, his debut book, Jazz Legend (Scout Comics), was picked up by Rooster Teeth Productions and Marginal MediaWorks for development as an animated television series. He has also authored the sci-fi graphic novel The Polish Ambassador to Space (Jumpsuit Recs) and a series of Appalachian-gothic comics, including The Devil’s Share, Dog Days of Raliegh Bottom, and Andy Griffith Must Die (Whiskey Tango Comics). In the theater world, JC has had three original plays produced for the stage, beginning with his debut, Abomination on Bolt Mountain, which headlined San Francisco’s Greenhouse Theatre Festival in 2016. He followed this with the comedy musical FRACK!! and the audio/visual hybrid stage show A West Virginia Story, produced by Treehouse Arts Ensemble and WV Collective. Alongside his writing career, JC is the co-founder of PowerUp+, a mobile startup that utilizes interactive comic book stories, animations, and games to help children overcome anxieties related to medical procedures.
Vincent Jolas Dubourg
Vincent Jolas Dubourg is a French comic book artist and storyteller whose passion for comics started at an early age. Beginning in Paris in the mid-1990s, Vincent worked as a makeup artist on film and television productions while developing his visual storytelling through storyboarding. This led him to collaborate on a feature film directed by Philippe Haïm, marking his start as a professional storyboard artist. From 1998 to 2018, Vincent worked extensively in advertising, collaborating with major French and international agencies, including Publicis, Leo Burnett, TBWA, Saatchi & Saatchi, MRM Worldwide, and Euro RSCG. In 2010, he returned to his primary passion—comics—and created the two-volume graphic novel series, Napoleon Bonaparte. Other works include Scions (2014) and the anthology Aporkalypse. In 2018, Vincent illustrated Jazz Legend and later, The Polish Ambassador to Space with writer and frequent collaborator, JC Lacek. Today, Vincent lives in the Peruvian Amazon with his wife and their two children. He is currently working on Sunday Times, a comic series he writes and illustrates, as well as Les Pieds dans la rivière, a graphic journal chronicling his family’s expatriation and daily life in Peru that you can read here: vincent-jolas-dubourg.com
