Bastien Vivès
Bastien Vivès is a Parisian who has drawn or collaborated on more than a dozen graphic novels since his published debut in 2006, including most recently The Butchery (Fantagraphics, 2021). The Angouleme Comics Festival granted Vivès the “Revelation” Award in 2009 and the prize for best series in 2015.
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Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Apart from her native tongue Persian, she speaks English, Swedish, German, French and Italian.
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Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War. She experienced an Iraqi air raid and Scud missile attacks on Tehran. Accordin -
Pierre Louÿs
Pierre Louÿs was a French poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who sought to "express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection". He was made first a Chevalier and then an Officer of the Légion d'honneur for his contributions to French literature.
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Born in Belgium, in 1870, but moved to France where he would spend the rest of his life. He was a friend of authors André Gide and Oscar Wilde, and of composer Claude Debussy. -
Olivier Schrauwen
Olivier Schrauwen is a Belgian cartoonist and musician, currently based in Berlin.
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Schrauwen was born in 1977 in Bruges, a city in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. He studied animation at the Academy of Art in Gent, then obtained a master degree in comics at the 'École superieure des Art Saint-Luc' in Brussels.
His works include the surreal Arsène Schrauwen (2014), the six sci-fi stories collected in Parallel Lives (2018), the pirate story Portrait of a Drunk (2019) in collaboration with French cartoonists Ruppert and Mulot, and his slice-of-life magnum opus Sunday (2024). -
Mawil
Markus “Mawil” Witzel wurde 1976 in Ost-Berlin geboren. Schon zu Schulzeiten veröffentlichte er seine Comics in selbstverlegten Fanzines und Anthologien und begann nach dem Abitur ein Grafikdesign-Studium an der Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, wo er mit anderen Gleichgesinnten die Comicgruppe Monogatari gründete.
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Während des Studiums entstand das erste längere Album “Strandsafari” (2002 bei Schwarzer Turm) mit Mawils Alter Ego, einem bebrillten Hasen. Ein Jahr später diplomierte er mit “Wir können ja Freunde bleiben”, einer tragikomischen autobiografischen Erzählung über Mädchengeschichten, mit dem er 2003 zu Reprodukt wechselte. Seitdem pendelt Mawil ständig zwischen beiden Genres.
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Laurent Galandon
Né le 16 mars 1970 à Issy-les-Moulineaux, Laurent Galandon grandit dans la banlieue parisienne. A l’adolescence, il s’enferme dans des greniers et joue des nuits entières de longues aventures où il combat Trolls et autres créatures Cthulhiennes. Ses premières histoires, il les écrit donc pour ses camarades de Jeux de Rôle. Adultes, il rejoint Paris pour se consacrer à son autre passion : la photographie. En 1996, il quitte la capitale et prend la direction d’un cinéma d’Art et Essai à Trappes (ville d'un célèbre comique !). Là, il rencontre des comédiens, des réalisateurs et des scénaristes qui raniment son goût pour raconter des histoires.
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Il ne serait pas indu de dire de Laurent Galandon qu'il est le scénariste des opprimés. En quelques a -
Berliac
Berliac is a manga author born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1982. He is the author of several graphic-novels and his short stories have been published in anthologies from Korea, United States, and France, among many others.
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Joe Kubert
Joe Kubert was a Jewish-American comic book artist who went on to found the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. His sons, Andy Kubert and Adam Kubert, have themselves become successful comic-book artists.
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Kubert's other creations include the comic books Tor, Son of Sinbad, and Viking Prince, and, with writer Robin Moore, the comic strip Tales of the Green Beret.
Kubert was inducted into the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997, and Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998. -
Marcello Quintanilha
Marcello Quintanilha nasceu em Niterói, Brasil, em 1971. Começou, ainda adolescente, por desenhar histórias sobre artes marciais com o pseudónimo de Marcello Gáu. Mais tarde, em 2003, envolve-se na série "Sept balles pour Oxford", para uma editora belga, com argumento do argentino Jorge Zentner e do espanhol Montecarlo. Estabelece-se, a partir de 2002, em Barcelona. Ilustrações suas surgem desde então nos jornais espanhóis "El País" e "Vanguardia". Ao mesmo tempo, continua a produzir álbuns para o público brasileiro. Em 2005 foi dado à estampa "Salvador". Seguiram-se "Sábado dos meus amores" (2009), "Almas públicas" (2011), "O ateneu" (2012), "Tungstênio" (2014), "Talco de vidro" (2015), "Hinário nacional" (2016) e "Luzes de Niterói" (2018)
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Koren Shadmi
Koren Shadmi is a Brooklyn Based illustrator and Cartoonist; he earned his degree in Illustration in 2006 from the School of Visual Arts in New York. His graphic novels have been published in France, Italy, Spain, Israel, and the US.
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Cyril Pedrosa
Cyril Pedrosa began his career in animation, working on the Disney films "Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Hercules." He has since become a rising star in a new kind of graphic storytelling, combining the influences of animation and the literary traditions of Borges, García Márquez, and Tolkien to create a unique visual handwriting.
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Rikke Villadsen
Rikke Villadsen is an artist and cartoonist from Denmark. She participated in the 2010 Nordicomic workshop and anthology and has been nominated four times for the Ping Award.
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Rodolfo Santullo
Rodolfo Santullo (Mexico D.F., 1979) es periodista, escritor, guionista y editor de historietas al frente de Grupo Belerofonte. Autoeditor desde 1999 con "Montevideo Ciudad Gris", integró la revista "Quimera" en 2003 y desde 2005 publica mediante GB. Sus novelas gráficas "Los últimos dÌas del Graf Spee" y "Acto de Guerra" (ambas con dibujos de Matías Bergara) han sido ganadoras en los Fondos Concursables para la Cultura que otorga el Ministerio de Educación y Cultura del Uruguay. Su novela gráfica "Cena con Amigos" (con dibujos de Marcos Vergara) recibió el galardón de "Mejor Guión" en los premios "Solano López" que se otorgaron en la Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires 2010. Junto a Matías Bergara además, resultó ganador del Premio de Historie
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Kayla E.
Kayla E. is an American cartoonist.
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She was born and grew up in Texas and earned a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University, where she served as the Art Director for the Harvard Lampoon.
Kayla E. currently lives in North Carolina and works as creative director at Fantagraphics Books. Her graphic novel debut is Precious Rubbish (2025), a work of trauma recollection told in the style of post-war children’s comics. -
Carlos Trillo
Carlos Trillo was an Argentine comic book writer. Trillo began a prolific career as writer already at the age of 20, writing his first story for Patoruzú magazine. Trillo created, together with Horacio Altuna, the strip El Loco Chávez, which appeared every day at the back of the newspaper Clarín from July 26, 1975 to November 10, 1987. After that, the strip was replaced by El Negro Blanco, which he wrote for the artist Ernesto García Seijas until September 1993. He married writer Ema Wolf and had two children. He participated on the creation of several comics including Cybersix in 1992, with Carlos Meglia, and the Clara de noche and Cicca Dum Dum series with Jordi Bernet. He has also collaborated with Alberto Breccia and Alejandro Dolina. I
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Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Apart from her native tongue Persian, she speaks English, Swedish, German, French and Italian.
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Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War. She experienced an Iraqi air raid and Scud missile attacks on Tehran. Accordin -
Manu Larcenet
Manu Larcenet (full name: Emmanuel Larcenet) is a French comics writer and artist. He has been working with Fluide Glacial magazine since 1994 and with Spirou magazine since 1997.
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Hubert
Hubert Boulard de son vrai nom ; il naît à Saint Renan, Finistère, en 1971. À l’origine, il ne se destine pas à la Bande dessinée, mais aux Arts plastiques. Il entre aux Beaux-Arts, d’abord à Quimper, puis à Angers. C’est là qu’a lieu une rencontre déterminante : Yoann (Toto l’Ornithorynque, La Voleuse du Père Fauteuil...), qui se destine déjà à être auteur et est publié en Angleterre. C’est lui qui fait (re)découvrir la bande dessinée à Hubert et ce qui s’y passe alors, tant aux États-Unis (Miller, Sankievitz, Mac Kean, Mignola ...) qu’en France (Barbier, David B., Trondheim...). En 1994, Hubert passe son diplôme de fin d’étude avec des installations tendance conceptuelle. Une fois sorti, il se pose l’inévitable question : « Et maintenant
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Jordan Crane
Jordan Crane is a cartoonist living in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and kids. Crane first emerged in 1996 with the iconic comics anthology NON, which he edited, designed, printed, contributed to, and published.
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He has four graphic novels, The Last Lonely Saturday, Col-Dee, and The Clouds Above, and Keeping Two. -
Frederik Peeters
Frédérik Peeters (born 13 August 1974, in Geneva) is a contemporary Swiss graphic novelist. He received his bachelor of arts degree in visual communication from the École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués in Geneva in 1995. Peeters currently lives with his partner Cati, her son, and their daughter in Geneva.
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His autobiographical graphic novel Blue Pills received the Polish Jury Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, where it was also nominated for Best Book. Blue Pills also won the Premios La Cárcel de Papel in Spain for Best Foreign Comic. This is his first work to be translated into English. -
Paco Roca
Francisco Martínez Roca (aka Paco Roca) is a graphic artist and a cartoonist from Valencia, Spain, who has won several art/writing awards. His graphic novel Wrinkles has been adapted into an animated movie.
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Wilfrid Lupano
Wilfrid Lupano is a French comics writer. Born in Nantes, he spent most of his childhood in Pau. Growing up, he buried himself in his parents’ comics-book collection, and his wild imagination and interest in writing stems from a love of role-playing games.
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As a young adult Lupano worked as a server to finance his studies in philosophy and English. With his friends and creative partners, Roland Pignault and Fred Campoy, he created the humorous western Little Big Joe, among other works. -
Olivier Schrauwen
Olivier Schrauwen is a Belgian cartoonist and musician, currently based in Berlin.
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Schrauwen was born in 1977 in Bruges, a city in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. He studied animation at the Academy of Art in Gent, then obtained a master degree in comics at the 'École superieure des Art Saint-Luc' in Brussels.
His works include the surreal Arsène Schrauwen (2014), the six sci-fi stories collected in Parallel Lives (2018), the pirate story Portrait of a Drunk (2019) in collaboration with French cartoonists Ruppert and Mulot, and his slice-of-life magnum opus Sunday (2024). -
Christophe Chabouté
Christophe Chabouté is a French author and illustrator.
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D’origine alsacienne, il suit les cours des Beaux-Arts d’Angoulême, puis de Strasbourg. Vents d'Ouest publie ses premières planches en 1993 dans Les Récits, un album collectif sur Arthur Rimbaud. Mais il se fait surtout connaître en 1998 en publiant Sorcières aux éditions du Téméraire (primé au Festival d’Illzach) puis Quelques jours d’été aux éditions Paquet (Alph’Art Coup de Cœur au Festival d'Angoulême). Il a également illustré des romans pour la jeunesse. -
Liv Strömquist
Strömquist was born in Lund and grew up in Ravlunda in the Österlen region of south Sweden. Today she lives in Malmö. Already as a five-year old she made her own comics, but stopped, until she took up drawing comics at the age of 23. Her flatmate made her interested in comic fanzines then. With Rikedomen, she published her first own fanzine.
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Her breakthrough as a comic artist followed with her first album Hundra procent fett ("One hundred percent fat"), which was published in 2005.[4] She regularly publishes in the comic magazine Galago in various magazines and newspapers such as Dagens Nyheter, Dagens Arbete, Bang, Aftonbladet and Ordfront Magasin.[5][6] She designed the cover for the 2013 album Shaking the Habitual by the band The Knife. S -
Jordi Lafebre
Jordi Lafebre (born 1979) is a Spanish illustrator and comic book artist active in the Franco-Belgian market.
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Séverine Vidal
Séverine Vidal est née en 1969. Après des études de Lettres, elle se souvient que, petite, elle adorait jouer à la maîtresse dans son garage avec des élèves découpés dans du carton. Elle devient donc professeur des écoles, pour de vrai cette fois. Elle écrit des tas d'histoires pour enfants qu'elle commence à envoyer aux éditeurs en 2009. Depuis, les réponses positives s'enchaînent : albums, BD, romans jeunesse (4 parutions en 2010, une vingtaine de titres prévus en 2011/2012). Elle adore cette nouvelle vie, pleine de rencontres, de rires et de liberté ! Elle se consacrera à l'écriture à temps plein, dès la rentrée 2011.
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Giulio Macaione
Catanese di nascita e palermitano d'adozione, vivo a Bologna. Artista e autore di fumetti, dopo aver vinto la terza edizione del concorso "Otto tavole per Mondo Naif" ho debuttato sul numero 25 della rivista "Mondo Naif" delle Kappa Edizioni, con il racconto originale "Mortén". Sempre con Kappa Edizioni ho pubblicato i romanzi a fumetti "The Fag Hag" e "Innamorarsi a Milano", su testi di Massimiliano De Giovanni. Con Comma 22 ho pubblicato il mio graphic novel "Ofelia", del quale è appena uscito lo spin off "I colori del vicino", edito da Renbooks.
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Ram V.
Ram V (Ramnarayan Venkatesan) is an author and comic book writer from Mumbai, India. His comics career began in 2012 with the award-nominated Indian comic series, Aghori. A graduate of the City University of London’s Creative Writing MA, he has since created the critically acclaimed Black Mumba and the fantasy adventure series, Brigands.
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Lee Lai
Lee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio’tia:ke (known as Montreal, Quebec).
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She has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeneys and The New York Times, and was recently named one of the 5 under 35 honorees by the National Book Foundation. Her first graphic novel, Stone Fruit, was released last year with Fantagraphics, Sarbacane, Coconino and other publishers. Mostly, she writes about people eating, talking, and making questionable decisions. -
Borja González
Borja González is a self-taught illustrator and comic strip artist. His first published title was La Reina Orquídea, a precious and haunting short piece that placed the author at the center of national attention in Spain. A Gift for a Ghost is his first long-form work. He lives in Badajoz, Spain.
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Alicia Jaraba Abellàn
Spanish comic writter and illustrator. She studied Spanish and French languages and literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela for 7 years. After university, she went to a School of graphic arts in Madrid (ESDIP), where she studied the ninth art for a year, to become a comic book author.
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Between 2017 and 2019, she drew the youth series Les détectives du supernaturel (Jungle ed.) and the two volumes of L'Onde Dolto (Delcourt).
In 2020, she began writing her first graphic novel: Celle qui parle (Grand Angle).
She won several titles in Spanish comic contests. -
A.J. Dungo
AJ Dungo was born in Fort Myers, Florida. He then moved to Toronto, then settled in Los Angeles where he attended Art Center in Pasadena. When he’s not making comics he works as an illustrator and designer. And when he’s not working on anything, he’s working on his cutbacks on his surfboard and slappies on his skateboard.
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Manon Desveaux
After a year working in a studio, I graduated from the Professionnal Storyboard course at The Animation Workshop (Denmark). Ever since, I have been wanting to explore many ways of storytelling and spent months working on my first comic book, coming out in January 2019. I am excited and open for new adventures !
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Alix Garin
Alix Garin was born in 1997 in Belgium. Her future career as a graphic novelist emerged very early on, and she plunged straight into comics art studies after high school. In 2017, she won the Young Talent prize at the Quai des Bulles festival in Saint Malo. In 2018, fresh out of her studies, she moved to Brussels and was hired by the Cartoonbase agency. At the same time, she began writing Ne M'oublie pas (Forget Me Not), a highly personal story published by Le Lombard in 2021 (published in English by Europe Comics, 2021).
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Thomas von Steinaecker
Thomas von Steinaecker was born in Germany in 1977. A novelist and journalist, he has also written extensively for radio and is the creator of several documentaries, including Richard Strauss and His Heroines. Two of his novels, Wallner beginnt zu Fliegen (2007) and Die Verteidigung des Paradieses (2016), have been nominated for the German Book Prize.
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Miguelanxo Prado
Inicia su trayectoria en el fanzine Zero, junto a otros reputados autores de su generación, como José María Beroy, Pascual Ferry, Antoni Garcés, Das Pastoras o Mike Ratera.
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Al final ya del boom del cómic adulto, consigue publicar en las mejores revistas de la época, como Creepy, Comix Internacional, 1984, Zona 84, El Jueves, Cairo y Cimoc. De esa época son sus seriales "Fragmentos de la Enciclopedia Délfica", "Stratos", "Crónicas Incongruentes", "Quotidiania Delirante" y "Tangencias".
A principios de la década de los 90 su obra se hace más escasa, dedicándose al diseño de personajes animados en televisión, para la televisión de Galicia en el programa Xabarín Club y en Estados Unidos en la serie Men in Black , cuyo productor era Steven Spielbe -
Stephen Murphy
Stephen Murphy is an American comic book writer and editor known for his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. With Michael Zulli, he was co-creator of the critically acclaimed 1980s independent comic The Puma Blues.
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Santiago Sánchez Kutika
Se recibió en la Universidad del cine y al presente estudia Artes en la UBA. Como guionista, sus trabajos fueron publicados en las antologías Creer o reventar, De Once a Moreno y Clítoris, de El Hotel de las ideas. Ganador del concurso Creacómic en España. Actualmente, trabaja en el blog de la revista Fierro y colabora con la publicación Maten al mensajero.
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Glenn Head
Glenn Head is an American cartoonist and comic book editor, based in New York City.
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Head was born in 1958 in Morristown, New Jersey and began drawing comics when fourteen. A student of Art Spiegelman at the School of Visual Arts in the early ‘80s, Head's style was significantly influenced by the underground comix of the 60's.
Much of his work has appeared in anthologies. In the early 90's Head co-created with cartoonist Kaz the comix anthology series Snake Eyes, for Fantagraphics Books. From 2005 to 2010 he edited and contributed to another anthology by Fantagraphics, called Hotwire Comix.
In recent years Glenn Head has moved towards longer form comics, releasing the graphic novels Chicago (2015) and Chartwell Manor (2021).
Other works and