Bruce Mutard has been producing graphic novels and comics for 15 years. He was the co-founder of Comics Quarterly, the journal for Australian comics and has created, produced and administered comic books production and drawing for comics courses at Melbourne's CAE. He published Street Smell in the 1990s and produced cartoons, illustrations and advertising through Bad Art Studios for a variety of clients, including 3RRR, Hitz FM, Independent Monthly, Bizarre Times and InPRESS. His first graphic novel, The Bunker, was published in the US by Image.The Sacrifice, Book I in the Robert Wells trilogy was published by Allen& Unwin in 2008.