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.
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.
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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 -
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Rutu Modan was born in Tel-Aviv in 1966. In 1992 she graduated cum laude from the illustration program at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Shortly after graduating, she began regularly writing and illustrating comic strips and stories for Israel's leading daily newspapers, as well as editing the Israeli edition of MAD magazine with Yirmi Pinkus. Together, they founded Actus Tragicus, an internationally acclaimed collective and independent publishing house for alternative comic artists, in 1995. The following year she collaborated with Israeli author Etgar Keret on her first graphic novel, Nobody Said it Was Going to Be Fun, an Israeli bestseller. Rutu has worked as an illustrator for magazines and books in Israel and abro
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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 -
Camille Jourdy
Since Camille Jourdy finished her education in Fine Arts, this French author divides her time between her works as illustrator of children´s books and her true passion: comic creation.
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Her very first contribution to the graphic narrative world takes place in 2004, when her first comic is published; Une araignée, des tagliatelles et au lit, tu parles d´une vie. This work shows a firm experimental vocation, where Jourdy plays with the narrative possibilities of the media.
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Manuele Fior
Manuele Fior is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator. He was born in Cesena in 1975 and studied architecture at the University of Venice. He worked as an architect, illustrator and comic book artist in Berlin, Oslo and Paris. He currently lives in Venice.
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Fior has received recognition for his comics since the 1990s. His most recent graphic novels 5,000 KM Per Second (2009), The Interview (2013), Blackbird Days (2016), Celestia (2021) and Hypericon (2022) have been translated in English by Fantagraphics. His illustration work has been featured in The New Yorker, Le Monde, Vanity Fair, Sole 24 Ore, Internazionale, Rolling Stone Magazine, Les Inrocks. -
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Kannosuke Hiramatsu (平松歓之介)
Honorable Mention in Winter 2007 and the grand-prize winner in Summer 2008 of the Afternoon Four Seasons Award under the pen-name Kannosuke Hiramatsu. -
Will McPhail
Will McPhail has been contributing cartoons, sketchbooks, and humor pieces to The New Yorker since 2014, and in 2017 and 2018, he won Reuben Awards for cartooning. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Fabien Toulmé
Fabien Toulmé (born 1980 in Orléans) is a French comic book writer and illustrator.
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Originally trained as an engineer, he became known to the wider public for his autobiographical graphic novel, Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais ("It's not you I was waiting for"), in which he describes his personal struggle with his second daughter being born with Down Syndrome. -
Ingrid Chabbert
Ingrid Chabbert est née en 1978 en Aveyron et vit aujourd'hui à Carcassonne.
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Elle écrit depuis sa plus tendre enfance, partout et sur n'importe quoi.
Elle n'a pas fait d'études de lettres mais jouer avec les mots, parler de la vie aux enfants, c'est sa passion.
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Étienne Davodeau
Il entreprend des études d'arts plastiques en 1985 à Rennes, et fonde avec quelques amis, dont Joub, Jean-Luc et Fred Simon, le studio BD Psurde. Cette petite structure éditoriale leur permet de publier leurs premiers travaux, dont un album collectif, La Vie Tourmentée d'Ernest Formidable.
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Manuele Fior
Manuele Fior is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator. He was born in Cesena in 1975 and studied architecture at the University of Venice. He worked as an architect, illustrator and comic book artist in Berlin, Oslo and Paris. He currently lives in Venice.
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Fior has received recognition for his comics since the 1990s. His most recent graphic novels 5,000 KM Per Second (2009), The Interview (2013), Blackbird Days (2016), Celestia (2021) and Hypericon (2022) have been translated in English by Fantagraphics. His illustration work has been featured in The New Yorker, Le Monde, Vanity Fair, Sole 24 Ore, Internazionale, Rolling Stone Magazine, Les Inrocks. -
Hergé
Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist.
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His best known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin comic book series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, leaving the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure Tintin and Alph-Art unfinished. His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe.
"Hergé" is the pseudonym of George Remí, making a game with the initials of his name inverted. Throughout the evolution of his star character, Tintin, we can see the progress of this author: from the first titles marked by the ultraconservative doctrine of the director of the newspaper Le Petit Vingtième, to the breaking -
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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Camille Jourdy
Since Camille Jourdy finished her education in Fine Arts, this French author divides her time between her works as illustrator of children´s books and her true passion: comic creation.
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Andi Watson
Andrew "Andi" Watson (born 1969) is a British cartoonist and illustrator best known for the graphic novels Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day and his series Love Fights, published by Oni Press and Slave Labor Graphics.
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Watson has also worked for more mainstream American comic publishers with some work at DC Comics, a twelve-issue limited series at Marvel Comics, with the majority at Dark Horse Comics, moving recently to Image Comics. -
Delphine de Vigan
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In 2011, she published a novel Rien ne s'oppose a la nuit (Nothing holds back the night) that deals with a family coping with their mother's bipolar disorder. In her native France, the novel brought her a set of awards, including the prix du roman Fnac (the prize given by the Fnac bookstores) and the prix Renaudot des lycéens. -
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Asano was born in 1980 and produced his first amateur comics as a teenager. His professional debut happened in 2000 in the pages of the magazine Big Comic Spirits. Since then, he has collaborated with most of the major Japanese magazines of seinen manga (comics for a mature audience). Among Asano's internationally acclaimed works are: the psychological horror Nijigahara Holograph (2003-2005); the drama Solanin (2005-2006); the existentialistic slice-of-life Goodnight Punpun (2007-2013); the erotic A Girl on the Shore (2009-2013); the sci-fi De -
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Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen. -
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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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Guy Delisle
Born in Quebec, Canada, Guy Delisle studied animation at Sheridan College. Delisle has worked for numerous animation studios around the world, including CinéGroupe in Montreal.
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Drawing from his experience at animation studios in China and North Korea, Delisle's graphic novels Shenzen and Pyongyang depict these two countries from a Westerner's perspective. A third graphic novel, Chroniques Birmanes, recounts his time spent in Myanmar with his wife, a Médecins Sans Frontières administrator. -
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David B.
Pierre-François Beauchard, who uses the pen name David B., was one of the initiators of the French alternative editorial house L'Association, and is now well-known among the French comics audience. After his Applied Arts studies, David B. had his first publications in magazines such as Chic, Circus, Okapi and A Suivre. Among his early creations are 'Le Timbre Maudit', a story published in Okapi, and 'the mini-series 'Zèbre' in Chic. As a scenarist, he cooperated with Olivier Legan on 'Pas de Samba pour Capitaine Tonnerre', an album published by Glénat in 1985.
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After he co-founded L'Association in 1990, he began using the pseudonym David B. and specialized in short black-and-white stories, detailing nightmarish dreams, collected in the album -
Gipi
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Pacinotti was born in 1963 in Pisa, Italy, where he still lives. He started his career as an illustrator for the publishing and advertising fields. Since 1992, Gipi has created illustrations and comics for several Italian magazines and newspapers, such as Cuore, Il Clandestino, Il Manifesto, La Straniero, Internationale, La Repubblica.
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Bastien Vivès
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Tony Sandoval
Tony's blog: http://losmonstruosdetony.blogspot.com/
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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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David Muñoz
Guionista. Cine (The Devil's Backbone, No mires a los ojos), cómic (15, Sordo, Infectado, Abandonados) y TV. Profesor. Autor de Escribir con viñetas.
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Ryan Andrews
Ryan Andrews lives in the Japanese countryside, with his wife, two kids, their dog, and a few noisy chickens. A friendly Kodama or two have been known to take up residence in the giant acorn tree that shades the house. He works at his drawing desk in the early morning hours, often to the sound of rummaging wild boar and badgers, who come from the surrounding forest seeking out shiitake mushrooms and fallen chestnuts.
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He is the author of the Eisner Award nominated This Was Our Pact, published in 2019 by First Second. He has also written several short stories, including Sarah and the Seed and Our Bloodstained Roof, both nominated for Eisner Awards in the best digital comics category.
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Dave McKean
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Bülent Üstün
Bekir Sami Dedeoğlu İlkokulu'nu bitiren Üstün, daha sonra Gaziosmanpaşa İmam Hatip Lisesi'nin orta bölümünden mezun oldu. Ardından, aynı semtteki Plevne Lisesi'ne devam etti. İlk karikatürü oniki yaşında yayınlandı. Bir süre Çarşaf Mizah Dergisi'nde çizdi. 1989 yılında, yeni kurulan Hıbır dergisinde profesyonel olarak çalışmaya başladı.
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Bülent Üstün, HBR Maymun Mizah Dergisi'nde çizdiği bant tip Tonguç ve karikatür köşesi Kabız Kuğu ile adını duyurdu. 1996 yılında yayınlanmaya başlayan L-Manyak çizgi roman dergisinde çizdiği Kötü Kedi Şerafettin karakteriyle büyük bir popülerlik yakaladı. Çocukluğunun geçtiği mahalle ortamını ve yaşadığı Cihangir semtindeki entellektüel yaşantıyı birleştirdiği öyküleriyle döneminin pek çok genç karikatürist -
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 -
Laerte
Laerte Coutinho, known mainly as simply Laerte, is a Brazilian cartoonist and screenwriter, known for creating comic strips such as Piratas do Tietê (Pirates of the Tietê River).
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She was part of the Brazilian underground comics scene of the 1980s. Together with Angeli and Glauco (and later Adão Iturrusgarai) she drew the collaborative comic strip Los Três Amigos. She has done work for publications such as Balão, O Pasquim, and Chiclete com Banana magazines, and draws regularly for Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. Since the mid 2000s, her strips have become more "philosophical" and less humor-focused, relying less on recurring characters.
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Anja Dahle Øverbye
Anja Dahle Øverbye er en norsk tegneserieskaper og illustratør. Hun er utdannet ved Kunstskolen i Bergen. I tillegg har hun en BA innen visuell kommunikasjon fra KIAD i England.
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Hennes første tegneserieroman, Hundedagar, kom i 2015. Boka var inspirert av egen oppvekst på Nordvestlandet og er en oppvekstskildring om rivalisering mellom jenter i tidlige tenår. Den vant Årets tegneserie 2016 på Oslo Comix Expo.
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Denis Bajram
Denis Bajram étudie aux Beaux-Arts, puis aux Arts déco de Paris. En 1996, il publie chez Delcourt son premier album. Cryozone. En 1998, les éditions Soleil lui permettent de devenir auteur complet avec Universal War One (UW1). Traduit aux USA chez Marvel, devenu une référence dans le domaine de la science-fiction, il fonde avec sa compagne, la scénariste Valérie Mangin, les éditions Quadrants. Il vit maintenant à Bayeux en Normandie, où il travaille sur une adaptation d'UW1 au cinéma. Pour Ankama, il coscénarise avec son épouse Expérience Mort, une fable sur la vie après la mort.
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