Ed Murphy is an award-winning publisher, comic-book writer and film producer. He is the founding publisher of UK-based Rough Cut Comics, which have been producing successful comic-book titles such as THE SURGEON and FREEDOM COLLECTIVE since 2001. The company won the Best British Comic in the 2014 True Believers/Eagle Awards for GOODCOPBADCOP: CASEBOOK#1, for which Ed was also editor. He is the creator of the ROSE BLACK series, and writer of the comic-book sequel to Brian Yuzna’s horror film classic, SOCIETY. Ed is also associate producer of the new animated horror film, MALEVOLENT, which features the vocal talents of William Shatner and Morena Baccarin.