Andrija Maurović was a renowned comic book author, often called the father of Croatian and Yugoslav comics. He is mostly known for his "Stari Mačak" series, published during the 30s and being so populat that the main fictional comics hero's name eventually became a nickname for the author himself.
Youssef Daoudi is a comic artist and illustrator living in France. He worked as an art director for multinational advertising firms for fifteen years before committing himself to writing and drawing graphic novels, including Monk!. He is an avid traveler, and New York is one of the most inspiring cities he’s ever visited.
Jessica Oublié est née à Paris en 1983. Après des études en histoire de l’art et près de deux ans à la rédaction de la revue Africultures, elle s’envole pour l’Afrique où elle travaille pendant cinq ans dans les domaines culturel et linguistique. De retour en France, elle se prend d’intérêt pour la migration antillaise des années 1960 à 1980. Elle co-signe avec la dessinatrice Marie-Ange Rousseau Péyi an nou (Steinkis, 2017), roman graphique documentaire sur l’émigration antillaise institutionnalisée des années 1960 à 1980 qui recevra quelques mois après sa sortie le Prix étudiant de la BD Politique de France Culture. Installée en Guadeloupe depuis février 2018, elle découvre avec stupéfaction l’impact du chlordécone sur la santé de la popu
Caetano Emanuel Vianna Telles Velloso (born August 7, 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. He has been called "one of the greatest songwriters of the century" and is sometimes considered to be the Bob Dylan of Brazil. Veloso is most known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Veloso was born in Bahia, a state in the northeastern area of Brazil, but moved to Rio de Janeiro as a college student in the mid-1960s. Soon after the move, Veloso won a music contest and was signed to his first label. He became one of the founders of Tropica
