• Guy is a freelance writer, director and producer. He began life in the theatre, then trained as a TV director in Children’s BBC TV. He sold his first script in 1979 to Play Away, the BBC family show. He wrote all 26 episodes of Orm and Cheep, the UK's top-rated children’s show, and the six books and an annual which went with the two series on CITV. He now mainly writes animation, including episodes of ‘Bob the Builder’ and ‘Wilf, the Witch’s Dog’. Guy writes books, including the 2003 UBOS Annual.
  He also does book adaptation and original development work on new projects, creating bibles, scripts and storylines. Guy is a Member of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.

Ian Ellery

• Ian is an illustrator, cartoonist and computer graphics artist. He is an experienced design studio Creative Director. In the Eighties he designed computer games such as the top-selling Rocky Horror Show and Blade Runner. In addition to his work for Phew!! he occasionally works freelance, illustrating and designing for books, magazines, greetings cards and the like, while doing extensive children’s character development work, mainly for animation projects.
  Ian is a long-serving Committee Member of the Cartoonists Club of Great Britain.

Mick Wells

• Mick has over thirty years experience in the design and illustration industry specialising in children’s products and licensed characters. He was a founder member of Brown Wells and Jacobs Ltd., which in ten years became one of the UK's leading children’s novelty book packagers.
  He formed Michael Wells Studio, which in 1986 became part of the Copyright Promotions Group. For six and a half years Mick was Managing Director of Clic! (The Character Licensing Illustration Company) developing its business internationally.
  Mick was the owner and Managing Director of Arkadia for five years and then worked for Design Rights International and BKN International as Creative Director, before going freelance in 2002.