Jan Baetens is the co-author, with Hugo Frey, of The Graphic Novel. An Introduction (Cambridge, 2015). He has written various books (in French) on comics and graphic novels, among which is Hergé écrivain (2006). A specialist of the photo novel and the film photo novel, he has also widely published on film and literature (an English translation of his book Novelization is forthcoming). He is the founding editor of the journal Image and Narrative, which is one of the leading journals in the field. Hugo Frey is the co-author, with Jan Baetens, of The Graphic Novel. An Introduction (Cambridge, 2015). He is the author of two original studies of the history of modern French cinema, Louis Malle (2004) and Nationalism and the Cinema in France (2014). He is Editor for the series European Comics and Graphic Novels and he has also contributed to the series on Science Fiction, Frontiers of the Imagination. At the University of Chichester, he is Chair in Cultural and Visual History and serves as Head of Department of English, Creative Writing, History and Politics. He has also contributed as an Inspirational Lecturer for The Prince's Teaching Institute (PTI), London. Stephen E. Tabachnick has taught the graphic novel at the university level for more than twenty years, and is the editor of Teaching the Graphic Novel (2009); (co-editor Esther Saltzman) Drawn from the Classics: Graphic Adaptations of Literary Texts (2015); The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel (Cambridge, 2017); and author of The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel (2014). He has written or edited several books about Charles M. Doughty, T. E. Lawrence, Harold Pinter, and Rex Warner.