Who’s Coming

Gabriel Bá is an Eisner Award winning artist on such books as De:Tales, 5, Daytripper, The Umbrella Academy, Casanova, Pixu, and B.P.R.D.: 1947. He lives and works in Brazil with his brother, Fábio Moon.

Alison Bechdel began keeping a journal at the age of ten, and has been assiduously archiving her own life and times with words and pictures ever since. For twenty-five years she wrote and drew the comic stripDykes to Watch Out For, a generational chronicle considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres …»

Born in Quebec City in 1966, Guy Delisle now lives in the South of France with his wife and son. Delisle has spent ten years, mostly in Europe, working in animation which allowed him to learn about movement and drawing. As the majority of animation is now done in Asia, …»

Gabriella Giandelli was born in Milan in 1963. She published her first comics in 1984 and soon established herself as one of the most important comic book artists in Europe. Her children’s serial character “Milo”, featured in numerous volumes published in Italy by Mondadori, has recently been adapted for television in Italy …»

Matthew Holm is the co-creator of the award-winning Babymouse series of graphic novels from Random House Children’s Books. His latest book is Babymouse: Cupcake Tycoon. He is also a professional graphic designer and the Consulting Creative Director for Hot Knife Design, Inc., of Boston, Mass. Prior to working on Babymouse, …»

Kazu Kibuishi is the author and illustrator of the popular Amulet graphic novel series for young readers, including Amulet 1: The Stonekeeper, which was honored with the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award in 2010 and the Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award in 2011; Amulet 2: The Stonekeeper’s Curse; Amulet …»

Bryan Lee O’Malley is the creator of the 6-volume graphic novel series “Scott Pilgrim”, released between 2004 and 2010. In 2010 the series was adapted into a feature film, video game, and several musical soundtracks. His previous graphic novel is 2003′s Lost At Sea, and his forthcoming work is Seconds, …»

Andy Runton has always loved to draw and always loved comics. After college and a career in corporate America, he finally followed his heart, started drawing comics, graphic novels, and books and hasn’t looked back since. In 2001 he created the breakout all-ages series of graphic novels, Owly, which features a kind-hearted little …»

Born and raised in the American mid-west, Jeff Smith is an internationally renowned cartoonist and the creator of the hit all-ages comic series BONE. Smith founded his publishing company, Cartoon Books, in 1991 and self-published BONE, which went on to run for more than 60 issues including several spin-offs. One …»

Kate Beaton was born in Nova Scotia, took a history degree in New Brunswick, paid it off in Alberta, worked in a museum in British Columbia, then came to Ontario for a while to draw pictures, then Halifax, and now New York. Maybe the moon next time, who knows.

Arne Bellstorf was born in Dannenberg, Germany in 1979. Since 2006 he has been writing and illustrating a monthly comic page for a German newspaper, Der Tagesspiegel. Besides working as an illustrator and comic artist, he also co-edits the annual Orang comic magazine with Sascha Hommer. Together, they founded Kiki …»

Tom Gauld was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1976. As a child his favourite things were drawing, lego and playing soldiers. He studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2001, Tom started small-press publishing venture ‘Cabanon Press’ with Simone Lia while they were studying at the Royal College of …»

Jennifer Holm is the co-creator of Babymouse and The Squish (with her brother Matthew Holm), as well as the writer of many novels for children and young adults, including Boston Jane, Stink Files, and Our Only May Amelia. Jennifer lives in Northern California with her husband and cat, Princess Leia Organa.

The Norwegian cartoonist Jason combines a poker-faced minimalist anthropomorphic style with more than a passing nod to the “clear-line” ethos of Hergé. As he has shown in a series of acclaimed graphic novels, this seemingly limited approach has proven amazingly versatile, allowing Jason to create gag comedy (Meow, Baby!), romantic …»

Fábio Moon is an Eisner Award winning artist on such books as De:Tales, 5, Daytripper, Sugarshock, Casanova, Pixu, and B.P.R.D.: 1947. He lives and works in Brazil with his brother, Gabriel Bá.

Michel Rabagliati was born in 1961 in Montreal, where he grew up in the Rosemont neighbourhood. Having developed an interest in typography, he studied graphic design and in 1988 moved into freelance illustration. Since 1998, his graphic novels have revolutionized the comic-book art form in Quebec. With his six books, …»

Olivier Schrauwen studied animation at the Academy of Art in Ghent, and comics at the Saint Luc in Brussels. He has contributed Beeldstorm, Demo, INK, Zone5300 and Spirou, as well as the popular Mome anthologies. Schrauwen, who works in an old-fashioned style that resembles classic American newspaper comics, made the critically acclaimed book …»

Adam Warren is presently the writer/artist of EMPOWERED, an ongoing “sexy superhero comedy” published by Dark Horse Comics. A groundbreaking artist, Warren was one of the first creators to internalize Japanese manga drawing and storytelling techniques, and utilized them in his English-language adaptation of The Dirty Pair, receiving the blessing …»