Featured Guests
Bill Amend
Bill Amend was born in New England and moved to the San Francisco Bay area when he was twelve. He is a former Eagle Scout, tuba player, math club president, and contributor to the student newspaper with twice-weekly editorial cartoons. He graduated from Massachusetts Amherst College with a degree in physics. After working for …read more
Blutch
Christian Hincker, who uses the pseudonym Blutch, is the creator behind Peplum, a homosexual tragedy that was serialized in the French magazine A Suivre and later collected at Cornélius. As an illustrator he has contributed to Libération, Les Inrockuptibles, and The New Yorker. His other works include Sunnymoon, Tu Es …read more
Ivan Brunetti
Ivan Brunetti, Assistant Professor in the Art and Design Department of Columbia College Chicago, teaches courses on drawing, design, illustration, cartooning, and graphic novels. In 2005 he curated The Cartoonist’s Eye for the A+D Gallery of Columbia College Chicago, an exhibit that served as a preview for An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and …read more
Chihoi
Born in 1977 in Hong Kong, Chihoi likes drawing since his childhood. He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1999), majoring in Food and Nutritional Sciences. Since 1996, the self-taught artist begins to release comics, illustration and writing in local press media, and comics appear in various international …read more
Lisa Hanawalt
Lisa Hanawalt self-published Stay Away From Other People in 2008 and established her comic-making style of funny illustrated lists and anthropomorphized animals, which she continued to explore in her first published work, I Want You #1 (Buenaventura Press, 2009) and I Want You #2 (Pigeon Press, 2010). Stay Away From …read more
Jaime Hernandez
Jaime Hernandez is the co-creator of the independent comic book Love and Rockets (along with his brothers Gilbert and Mario). Jaime’s main contribution to Love and Rockets is the ongoing serial narrative Locas which follows the tangled lives of a group of primarily Latina characters, from their teenage years in …read more
Jarrett Krosoczka – Cancelled
****Sadly, Jarrett Krozoczka has had to cancel his appearance at the festival.**** Jarrett J. Krosoczka has been passionate about storytelling through words and pictures since he was a kid. He began his professional career by illustrating educational readers for a national publisher while still an undergraduate at Rhode Island School of …read more
Eric Lambé
À l’aube des années 90, Éric Lambé a animé avec Alain Corbel les précieuses revues Moka et Pelure Amère. Il a collaboré à de nombreuses revues avant de signer Les jours ouvrables aux éditions Amok. C’est avec Sifr, récit court du Cheval sans tête volume 5, qu’il débute en 1998 sa collaboration avec Philippe de Pierpont. Suivront Alberto …read more
Ulli Lust
Ulli Lust was born in 1967 in Vienna, Austria. Her cartooning work has mainly comprised comics reportages; Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life is her first graphic novel, and her first work to be translated into English. Universally considered one of the very finest examples of the …read more
Rutu Modan
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 …read more
Frederik Peeters
Frederik Peeters 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. He has been nominated at Angouleme in the best book category five times. The publication and success of Blue Pills firmly put …read more
Michel Rabagliati
Like many kids in North America, Michel Rabagliati grew up reading comic books, but since he was born in 1961 in Montreal, instead of reading The Hulk or Superman, he was immersed in all the major comic albums being published in Belgium and France: Tintin, Spirou, Gaston, and of course Asterix, among others. Rabagliati faithfully subscribed …read more
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman has been a staff artist and contributing editor at The New Yorker, as well as the cofounder/coeditor of RAW, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics. In addition to Maus – which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and twice nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award …read more
Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier grew up in San Francisco, but made her way to New York City when she was 22 to attend the School of Visual Arts as an Illustration and Cartooning student. She received her BFA in 2002, and has worked as a freelance artist ever since. She is the …read more
Maurice Vellekoop
Maurice Vellekoop was born in 1964 in suburban Toronto. His mother created bullet-proof hairdos for the local ladies in her salon in the family’s basement. His father was an avid art lover who blasted the neighbourhood with his opera records on Saturday afternoons. A true child of the TV age, …read more
David B
David B. is a French comic book artist and writer, and one of the founders of L’Association. After studying advertising at the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris, Beauchard began working in comics in 1985, and wrote and illustrated stories in numerous magazines, including Okapi, À suivre, Tintin Reporter, …read more
Boulet
Boulet, the pen name for Gilles Roussel, is a French comic book creator and cartoonist born February 1, 1975 in Meaux, France. He was among the first French cartoonists to become famous by publishing a comic strip weblog, starting in July 2004. Roussel studied art at the Graduate School of …read more
C.F.
C.F. is an artist and musician based in Providence, RI. A prolific cartoonist. He will debut his latest book, MERE, at TCAF 2013. he has completed three editions of the projected multi-volume Powr Mastrs series and one book of drawings and graphics entitled Sediment. He widely considered one of the most important …read more
Glyn Dillon
Glyn Dillon was born in 1971, the youngest of a family where both the father and the first born son were working artists. Glyn’s had a wide ranging career, mainly working as a storyboard artist and concept designer for both film and television. He has also worked on and off …read more
Gilbert Hernandez
Gilbert Hernandez was born in 1957 in Oxnard, California, the middle child in a family of six children. Alongside his brothers Jaime and Mario, Gilbert co-created and contributed to the acclaimed comic book series Love and Rockets, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2012. Gilbert has won numerous awards for …read more
Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd is a Designer/Writer in New York City (and Stonington, CT, and Palm Beach, FL). His book cover designs for Alfred A. Knopf, where he has worked non-stop since 1986, have helped create a revolution in the art of American book packaging. He is the recipient of the National …read more
Michael Kupperman
Michael Kupperman is an American comic artist and humorist whose words and pictures have appeared everywhere from the New Yorker to Saturday Night Live. He has written four books and illustrated many more. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Muire and son Ulysses. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The …read more
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Bryan Lee O’Malley is a Canadian cartoonist. His six-volume Scott Pilgrim series was a New York Times bestseller, an LA Times Book Prize finalist, and won an Eisner Award, two Harvey Awards, a Doug Wright Award and a Joe Shuster Award. Scott Pilgrim was adapted into a critically-acclaimed major motion picture …read more
Taiyo Matsumoto
Taiyo Matsumoto is a Japanese comics creator whose kinetic style and thoughtful, considered narratives have won him fans across the world. Drawing on a wide range of artistic influences from Japan and Europe, Matsumoto’s graphic novels evidence a deep knowledge and appreciation of the entire world of comics. Matsumoto is …read more
Françoise Mouly
Françoise Mouly joined The New Yorker as art editor in April 1993. She is the publisher and Editorial Director of TOON Books, a part of her small publishing house. Her new book, Blown Covers, about the creative process behind New Yorker covers was published by Abrams in April 2012. She …read more
Paul Pope
Paul Pope is an American cartoonist living and working in New York City. Pope has made a name for himself internationally as an artist and designer. He has been working primarily in comics since the early ’90s, but has also done a number of projects with Italian fashion label Diesel …read more
Dash Shaw
Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator. His previous books are Bottomless Belly Button published by (Fantagraphics), and BodyWorld published by (Pantheon Books). Fantagraphics will be publishing his new works, New School and 3 New Stories, this Spring.
Gengoroh Tagame
Gengoroh Tagame is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in gay BDSM erotic manga, many of which depict graphic violence. The men he depicts are hypermasculine, and tend to be on the bearish side. Born into a family descended from samurai, Tagame began his career as a manga artist in …read more
Judith Vanistendael
Judith Vanistendael creates comics “that have to do with life as it really is.” She is the mother of two children and has lived in Brussels since she was five. Vanistendael studied at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin, earned an academic degree in art sciences from the Univeristy of …read more
