Matthew K. Manning is the author of over eighty books and dozens of comic books. He has written books for Scholastic, Disney Press, Abrams, Capstone, DK Publishing, Running Press, Andrews/McMeel, and Insight Editions. Many of his books have reached best-seller status on Amazon, including DC Comics: Anatomy of a Metahuman, DC Comics Encyclopedia, and Batman: A Visual History. Flaviu Pop is a comic book illustrator, concept artist and pop culture enthusiast. He’s been active as a professional artist since 2020. He made his debut in indie comics with DIGITAL, a sci fi comic book series he co-created and published with fellow authors Rich Watkin and Zaky Hnana in 2021, where he worked as illustrator, character designer, cover artist and colorist. Flaviu’s also worked on various projects such as Gekko The Bounty Hunter (2021 – cover artist, illustrator, letterer and designer), a fan fiction origin story of the character Gekko from the Mandalorian, The Cardinal (2023 – cover artist and illustrator) for Alpha Comics Publishing, he created character designs and splash art for San Francisco based video game developer Syzygy Studios (2022), and has an ongoing cover art collaboration with electronic music artists such as Tokyo Rose, ALEX, Naeleck, Rogue VHS and Extra Terra. At the moment Flaviu is the illustrator of the book Batman: The Multiverse of the Dark Knight, An Illustrated Guide, written by Matthew K Manning and published by Insight Editions in collaboration with DC Comics as well as many other projects that will soon be officially announced. Flaviu is primarily a self taught artist, drawing inspiration from animation, fashion, film and sports, which are also his hobbies while he’s not drawing. He currently resides in Bucharest, Romania. You can follow Flaviu’s work on Instagram and Facebook under the handle leaking_colour and on Behance at: https://www.behance.net/flaviu_pop
