Chicago-area native Corey Barba is an animator, illustrator, cartoonist, and musician. He's been creating kid's comics for Nickelodeon Magazine for the last 8 years, and underground comics for much longer. His work has been published by Fantagraphics Books, seen in the Pictoplasma book and exhibition, the on-line humor magazine Tastes Like Chicken, and various comic anthologies. His all-ages graphic novel, Yam, debuts from Top Shelf this spring.