Catherine Meurisse
Catherine Meurisse is a Paris-based illustrator, cartoonist, and comic-book artist. A survivor of the Charlie Hebdo attack, she has illustrated over 20 adult and children's books. This is her first book in English.
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Jason Shiga
Jason Shiga is an award-winning Asian American cartoonist from Oakland, California. Mr. Shiga's comics are known for their intricate, often "interactive" plots and occasionally random, unexpected violence. A mathematics major from the University of California at Berkeley, Mr. Shiga shares his love of logic and problem solving with his readers through puzzles, mysteries and unconventional narrative techniques.
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Jason Shiga's life has been shrouded in mystery and speculation. According to his book jacket, he was a reclusive math genius who had died on the verge of his greatest discovery in June 1967. However, upon winning a 2003 Eisner award for talent deserving of wider recognition, a man claiming to be Jason Shiga appeared in front of an audi -
Steven Appleby
Steven Appleby is a British and Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, writer and visual artist based in London, whose comic strips are best known for their absurdist humour.
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Appleby studied graphic design at Newcastle Polytechnic (1978–1981), then illustration at the Royal College of Art of London (1981–1984), where they met future major collaborators George Mole and Malcolm Garrett.
Appleby cartooning work first appeared in the magazine 'New Musical Express' in 1984 with the Rockets Passing Overhead comic strip about the character Captain Star, later featured also in 'The Observer', as well as other newspapers and comic magazines in Europe and America. Other comic strips followed in many publications, including 'The Times', the 'Sunday Telegrap -
Marc Torices
Marc Torices is a Spanish cartoonist, illustrator and animator.
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Torices studied illustration at the Llotja-Avinyó school in his home city of Barcelona, Spain. His early comic works appeared in a number of fanzines, many published under the small imprinting Zángano Comix, which he co-founded. A recurring character in Torices strips, Cornelius the dog eventually became the protagonist of his graphic novel Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog (2023). Among his other books, the comic biography Cortázar (2017), written by Jesús Marchamalo.
Torices has also worked in animation, most notably directing the award-winning shorts Knockstrike, co-directed with Pau Anglada y Genís Rigol and Naive Mischief in Oak Paso. -
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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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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Bea Lema
Beatriz Lema Rivera (1985), known as Bea Lema, is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, winner of the 2024 Spanish National Comic Award. Her works have been published in both Spanish and French.
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In 2017, she published her first comic in galician, O Corpo de Cristo, which was nominated and later named winner of the XII Castelao Comic Award of the Provincial Council of A Coruña, becoming the first woman to receive this award. Thanks to a scholarship she remade her work at the Maison des auteurs in Angoulême, and it was later published in France under the title Des maux à dire.
Her first work, renamed to Spanish as El Cuerpo de Cristo and published this time by the Astiberri publishing house, was awarded the 2024 National Comic Award, which was -
Lucie Bryon
Lucie Bryon is an cartoonist and illustrator. She studied graphic design in Orléans, France and comics at the ESA St Luc Brussels, Belgium.
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She now lives in France and works for children’s publishing, video game companies and various publications as an illustrator and comic artist.
Her work has been published by ShortBox, Milan, BDkids, Kaboom Studios, Cicada Magazine, and France Inter.
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Gaël Faye
French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Gaël studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music. He is as influenced by Creole literature as he is by hip hop culture, and released an album in 2010 with the group Milk Coffee & Sugar. In 2013, his first solo album, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre, appeared. It was recorded between Bujumbura and Paris, and is filled with a plethora of musical influences: rap laced with soul and jazz, semba, Congolese rum
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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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Fabien Nury
Born in 1976, Fabien Nury began his career by co-writing with Xavier Dorison the script of W.E.S.T (Dargaud), a hit series illustrated by Christian Rossi (six volumes between 2003 and 2011). Nury independently wrote Je suis Légion (2004-2007, Humanoids Associés), a trilogy illustrated by the American John Cassaday. Translated into eight languages, the series continues with several other illustrators under the title Les chroniques de Légion (Glénat). In 2007 he also started working on Le maître de Benson Gate (Dargaud) with Renaud Garreta. From 2007 to 2012, Nury wrote the script for the six volumes of Il était une fois en France (Glénat). The historical series, illustrated by Sylvain Vallée, received wide critical and public acclaim (850,00
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Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.
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From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection -
Lou Lubie
Originaire de l'île de la Réunion, Lou Lubie publie son premier roman à dix-huit ans, avant de s'orienter vers la bande dessinée. Ses cinq premiers livres voient le jour chez des éditeurs réunionnais.
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Passionnée par les possibilités créatives du numérique, elle fait ses études dans le domaine du jeu vidéo. En 2008, elle fonde le Forum Dessiné, un site communautaire de BD collective improvisée. Toujours actif aujourd'hui, le site a vu défiler 2.600 dessinateurs et près de 300.000 dessins.
Ses albums Goupil ou face – BD de vulgarisation sur la bipolarité – et La Fille dans l’écran – romance dessinée à quatre mains – lui valent une notoriété croissante. En 2021, elle revient avec L’homme de la situation, un thriller psychologique très actuel qui -
Cati Baur
Je suis née à Genève à l'automne 1973.
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Après des études d’arts plastiques et une première vie de libraire, je deviens assistante d’édition et me fais connaître en animant un blog BD alors que ce média est à peine émergent.
En 2007, je publie ma première bande dessinée aux éditions Delcourt, avant de me tourner plus particulièrement vers la jeunesse avec la série « Quatre Soeurs » adaptée des romans de Malika Ferdjoukh, désormais publiée chez Rue de Sèvres, puis d'illustrer des albums et des couvertures avec divers éditeurs, dont L'école des Loisirs, Magnard, Play-Bac, Casterman...
Aujourd’hui, je vis à Montpellier et partage mon temps entre l'illustration et la bande dessinée.
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Mona Chollet
Mona Chollet is a Franco-Swiss writer and journalist. She is the chief editor for Le Monde diplomatique and has also written for Charlie Hebdo. She lives in Paris, France.
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Après une licence en lettres à Genève, elle étudie le journalisme à l’École supérieure de journalisme de Lille.
Elle est ensuite pigiste pour Charlie Hebdo. Mais son contrat est interrompu en 2000 après sa contestation d'un éditorial du directeur de la rédaction Philippe Val, qui qualifiait les Palestiniens de « non-civilisés ». Elle raconte : « Quelques jours après, il m’a convoquée, et il m’a annoncé qu’il arrêtait mon CDI après le mois d’essai, alors que j’étais pigiste depuis un an. Ça m’a sidérée »1.
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Isabelle Maroger
Née à Montpellier d’un père français et d’une mère norvégienne, Isabelle a dès son plus jeune âge gribouillé partout et sur tout, de préférence sur les rideaux du salon, sur son petit frère, sa grande sœur, son chien et son chat… Ça lui a réussi puisqu’elle a poursuivi ses hautes études de gribouillage dans une vraie école de dessin, l’école Émile Cohl de Lyon.
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Désormais, elle illustre des livres et des magazines pour enfants choc ou femmes chic. Elle aime créer des images graphiques et qui donnent le sourire. .
Isabelle vit à Lyon où elle partage un atelier/galerie, Le Bocal, avec 10 autres cornichons. -
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. -
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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Pénélope Bagieu
Pénélope Bagieu, (born 22 January 1982 Paris), is a French illustrator and comic designer. She became known for her comic blog My quite fascinating life.
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Penelope Bagieu graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economic and Social studies, she spent a year at ESAT Paris, then at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris and then at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Multimedia and entertainment, where she graduated in December 2006.
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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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Riad Sattouf
Riad Sattouf est l’auteur de nombreuses bandes dessinées, parmi lesquelles Retour au collège, Pascal Brutal (Fauve d’or 2010) ou La vie secrète des jeunes. Les beaux gosses, César du meilleur premier film ; Jacky au royaume des filles)
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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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Annie Ernaux
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.
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Josep Busquet
Guionista y dibujante. Antes de entrar la escola de còmic Joso (donde pasaría 5 años) comenzó a hacer fanzines en 1991 donde hacía cómics artículos y entrevistas. Tras su paso por la Joso, su primera obra como guionista, Manticore, es editada por Camaleón Ediciones el año 1996. Más tarde publicaría en varias editoriales como Glénat, Planeta-DeAgostini, Dolmen o Norma Editorial. Además ha publicado en revistas como Amaniaco, La Comictiva, Vade Retro, Juegos & Cia, Slumberland, Cinemanía, El Pequeño País, El Jueves, El Clímaco, Dos Veces Breve, Mister K, Penthouse Comix o Tretzevents.
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En el saló del cómic de Barcelona de 2009 fue premiado con el premio popular al mejor guión por La Revolución de los Pinceles, publicada el año 2008 por Dolmen e -
Nicolas Mahler
Austrian author and illustrator Nicolas Mahler has illustrated numerous school books and worked on several animated films, shown at festivals throughout Europe. Known for his striking minimalist drawing style and sardonic deadpan wit, Mahler's graphic novels have been published in France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Poland, Canada, and the United States as well as his native Austria. He has published over 20 books and created drawings for international magazines, newspapers, and anthologies.
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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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Alessandro Sanna
Born in 1975, Alessandro Sanna's work is well-known throughout Italy. He has earned wide recognition across Europe as an illustrator and author, and his work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review and the New Yorker. He is a prolific and popular creator of illustrated books for children and readers of all ages and has received many awards and had many exhibitions. He lives and works in Mantua, Italy.
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Paula Bonet
Paula Bonet Herreros conocida como Paula Bonet (Villareal, 1980) es una pintora e ilustradora española. Ha colaborado en diferentes proyectos y libros como el poemario "Si uneixes tots els punts" (Si unes todos los puntos) de la actriz y poetisa catalana Estel Solé o la obra "T'estimo, ets perfecte, ja et canviaré" dirigida por Elisenda Roca.
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Miguel Brieva
Miguel Brieva es un humorista español. Su medio de expresión son viñetas de estilo de los años 50 y 60 y textos cortos que pueden ser historietas, aforismos, definiciones...
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Comenzó autoeditándose en los primeros años del siglo XXI en la publicación Dinero. Después ha trabajado en el periódico Diagonal, El Jueves, La Vanguardia, Cinemanía, Ajoblanco, Mondo Brutto, El País y Rolling Stone, entre otros. La editorial Mondadori ha publicado, con licencia Creative Commons, recopilatorios de sus trabajos.
En sus viñetas llama mucho la atención el desajuste permanente entre la iconografía inocente del consumismo prometedor de la posguerra y un texto que lleva ese consumismo hasta extremos contradictorios, absurdos, macabros o irreales. El propio Bri