Jack Chabert is a game designer for Poptropica, the creator and author of Eerie Elementary, and, writing under a different name, the author of more than 25 titles including licensed books for Adventure Time, Regular Show, Uncle Grandpa, and Steven Universe. Chabert lives in New York with his wife.

Kory Merritt, co-creator of Poptropica comics, started cartooning and illustrating while attending SUNY Brockport. His weekly comic strip Brockport Chronicled won the John Locher Memorial Award for cartooning. He is also the author of the online comic strip The Lost Side of Suburbia and the upcoming illustrated series The Dreadful Fate of Jonathan York. Merritt lives in Hammondsport, New York, where he teaches art for grades K–6.