Anne Elizabeth Moore is an internationally renowned and bestselling cultural critic and comics journalist. Moore is a Fulbright scholar, UN Press Fellow, and USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow, is part of the team behind The Ladydrawers, and has written and edited several award-winning books. Her journalism focuses on global women's labor. She exhibits her work frequently as conceptual art, and has been the subject of two documentary films. She has lectured around the world on independent media, globalization, and women's labor issues. Co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, and founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore was recently the theorist-in-residence at das weisse haus in Vienna, Austria, and teaches in the Visual & Critical Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Ladydrawers Comics Collective is an unofficially affiliated group of female-, male-, and non-binary gender identified folk who research, perform, create, and publish accessible comics, texts, and films about how economics, race, sexuality, and gender impact the comics industry, other media, and our culture at large. Collective members who contributed to Threadbare include Leela Corman, Melissa Gira Grant, Julia Gfrörer, Sarah Jaffe, Delia Jean, Ellen Lindner, Melissa Mendes, and Anne Elizabeth Moore.