Joann Sfar is an artist, writer, and film director. He is best known for his adaptation of The Little Prince and his original title The Rabbi's Cat. He recently wrote and directed a movie and authored a graphic novel on the life of Serge Gainsbourg. Lewis Trondheim is the creator of such comic strips as A.L.I.E.E.E.N., McConey Rabbit, and Mr. O. He is the author of A.L.I.E.E.E.N.: Archives of Lost Issues, Kaput & Zosky, the Little Nothings series, and Mister I. He is the head of Shampooing, an imprint of the French comics publisher Delcourt. Frédéric Bézian is a French comic artist trained at the prestigious Saint Luc School for comic art. Since the 1980s, he has authored many works for a variety of indie and larger houses, most notably the Humanoids. Blutch is the pen name for Christian Hincker, a prominent French artist whose body of boundary-stretching work was given the highest honor when he was awarded the Grand Prize of the city of Angouleme in 2009, placing him in a pantheon of the best comic artists alive today.