QUIQUE ALCATENA

Quique Alcatena

"Alcatena became famous in his country during the 1980s collaborating for local magazines like Skorpio and Nippur. He also worked for the children's magazine Anteojito where his work was mostly surreal fantasy full of mythology. Most of these stories were also published in European magazines, translated to English, Italian and French."

MONSTER

"Naoki Urasawa's Monster"
is a seinen manga written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa.
Plot: when a Doctor makes the highly controversial decision to save a boy's life over the mayor's, it leads to the loss of almost everything he holds dear. His fiance, his career, his social standing. The only thing he keeps is his own feeling of self worth, knowing that he did the right thing in saving the boy, who came in first. Yet even that is threatened when he begins to learn that nothing is as it originally appeared. A trail of bloodshed pointing to the seemingly innocent child leaves him questioning even his beliefs. Whether, in the end, all lives are ever truly equal."

CYRIL PEDROSA

Cyril Pedrosa
"Né le 22 novembre 1972 à Poitiers, Cyril Pedrosa décide de devenir dessinateur dès l'adolescence. Il étudie le dessin animé à l'école des Gobelins, puis fait ses armes aux studios d'animation français de Disney, travaillant comme intervalliste puis assistant animateur. Il y travaille notamment sur Le Bossu de Notre-Dame et Hercule. De son passage par l'animation, il gardera un style graphique dynamique, efficace et pertinent."

HARPUN

Harpun
"An italian web comic created by the scriptwriter Giovanni Masi and the drawer Federico Rossi Edrighi.
Harpun is a monsters hunter, she love the fish soup, she has an harpoon and she isn't afraid to use it! "

GUY DAVIS

Guy Davis
"Michigan based artist Guy Davis spent his youth drawing and sketching monsters and aliens, with an imagination fed on a healthy dose of late night creature features and monster mags!
A self-taught illustrator, Guy first tried his hand at cartooning with a strip that ran in his hometown newspaper during his high school years— which by all accounts is worth forgetting. It was after graduating and not really having any idea of what to do with himself outside of drawing, that he decided to try and continue in comics. In 1984 he created a tongue in cheek space opera “Quonto of the Star Corps” for the small press “Fantastic Fanzine”. Quonto was soon forgotten but the fanzine would later become Arrow Comics and lead to work on the comic series The Realm. After a few years at Arrow Comics, his work on The Realm would take him to Caliber Press and his first creator owned series with Gary Reed; the Harvey Award nominated Baker Street. It was Baker Street that led him to DC/Vertigo and Sandman Mystery Theatre with Matt Wagner and Steve Seagle, and that collaboration would lead to many more projects and deadlines over the years to come. Since then he has worked for most of the major comic publishers along with providing artwork and conceptual design for various role-playing games, and multi-media projects.
Currently Guy is illustrating Mike Mignola’s and John Arcudi’s ongoing B.P.R.D. series (work which won him a 2009 Eisner Award for Best Penciller/Inker), along with continuing his creator owned series The Marquis for Dark Horse Comics. He still resides in Michigan with his fiancée, the talented writer and artist, Rosemary Van Deuren, along with a menagerie of pets and a trio of horse skulls named Becky, Conrad and Steptoe."

FABIO AND GABRIEL

Fabio and Gabriel
"Multiple Eisner Award winners Fábio and Gabriel were born in São Paulo in June 5th, 1976 and have, in one way or another, been telling stories ever since. Now, they tell stories doing comic books and graphic novels (which are essencially the same thing).

Here, they show some pictures and they talk a little about their behind-the-scenes day-to-day life.

And they write introductions about themselves in the third person."

TED MATHOT

Ted Mathot
storyboard artist and writer/artist/self-publisher of graphic novels and comics.

LORENZO DE FELICI

Lorenzo De Felici
"Lorenzo De Felici nasce nel 1983 a Frascati. Studia sceneggiatura cinematografica alla Terza Università di Roma e frequenta una scuola di fumetto.
In circa tre anni ha lavorato come storyboard artist per alcuni spot televisivi, come vignettista per varie riviste, ha disegnato copertine di libri e dischi, ha colorato fumetti e copertine di fumetti. Lavora attualmente per la casa editrice Bonelli. Ha insegnato e insegna fumetto a grandi e piccoli, e viceversa.

JAMIE HEWLETT

Jamie Hewlett
"Jamie Christopher Hewlett (born 3 April 1968) is an English comic book artist and designer. He is known for being the co-creator of the comic Tank Girl and co-creator of the virtual band Gorillaz."

ELEANOR DAVIS

Eleanor Davis
"I’m a cartoonist and illustrator. My comics have been published in Fantagraphics’ MOME and Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics 2008. I have two graphic novels for kids: The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook (Bloomsbury Children’s 2009) which I created with my husband Drew Weing, and the easy-reader Stinky (Toon Books 2008). I live in beautiful Athens, Georgia, with Drew and our three cats."

JUNG ETIENNE

Jung Etienne

"Illustrateur dans la presse jeunesse et la bande-dessinée Les images postées sur ce blog sont protégées par copyright.Pour toute utilisation,contacter l'auteur."

LACKADAISY

Lackadaisy
"Lackadaisy (also known as Lackadaisy Cats) is a webcomic created by artist Tracy J. Butler, which has won Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards in 2007 and 2008.[1] The comic is set in a Prohibition-era 1927 St. Louis with a population of anthropomorphic cats.[2] The plot chronicles the fortunes of the Lackadaisy speakeasy after its founder is murdered.

The style of the comic is highly detailed, with cartoon characters that resemble styles from animated films of Walt Disney and Don Bluth.[3] The strips are sepia-toned, resembling aged photographs of the 1920s era. Launched on July 19, 2006, the comic updates on an irregular basis, with 23 pages in 2006, 25 in 2007, 13 more by the end of September 2008,[4] and continuing on a monthly basis through 2010."

EMANUELE TENDERINI

Emanuele Tenderini
Nasce a Venezia nell’ormai lontanissimo 1977. Fin da piccolo fa un sacco di cose. Mangia, dorme, studia, gioca con i Lego, con i Master, con i Transformer, guarda alla tv i cartoni animati, “Grosso guaio a china town”, “Highlander”, “i Goonies”, “Giochi Stellari”, “Barbarian Brothers” e un sacco di altri film. Si diploma ragioniere e si iscrive ad un anno di giurisprudenza...probabilmente il motivo scatenante che lo porterà, dopo un anno in aeronautica, a iscriversi alla Scuola del Fumetto di Milano e a farsi crescere i capelli.

Attualmente vive , disegna e colora nella sua Serenissima città natìa. Continua a guardare film, ma i Lego costano troppo e i Master non sono più quelli di una volta."

MANUELE FIOR

Manuele Fior
"Manuele Fior est un auteur de bandes dessinées et illustrateur italien, vivant à Paris. Depuis le 1^er mars 2010, il participe au feuilleton en ligne Les Autres Gens scénarisé par Thomas Cadène."

DEATH NOTE

Death Note
Death Note is a manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The main character is Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a death god named Ryuk. It centers around Light's attempt to create and rule a world cleansed of evil using the notebook and the efforts of a detective known as L, and subsequently his successors, Near and Mello, to stop him. The Death Note grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose name they know, by writing the name in the notebook while picturing their face.

ROBERTO RICCI

Roberto Ricci
"Robert Ricci has been fascinated by music and comics from an early age. He studied art, then decided to be a professional guitar player. After years of studying the instrument, his dream was shattered by a chronic inflammation of the tendons. He then turned to the International School of Comics in Rome. There, he met Saverio Tenuta, who helped him in getting his first story published in magazine Heavy Metal ('Conquistadores', in May 2000). At the same time, Ricci published short stories for children through the italian publisher Magic Press, and at last, after spending some years doing private commissions, small jobs in the graphic field and other short stories for Heavy Metal ('The Dart' in November 2000 and 'Genesis' in January 2002) he got in touch with Saimbert, a French scenario writer. Together, they began working on a project for the French publisher Delcourt, titled 'Les Âmes d'Hélios', a science-fiction epic in five volumes."

BENOIT BOUCHER

Benoit Boucher
"The very first job Benoit ever wanted to do was Lion Hunter. As he soon learned of the risks associated with such a job (and the difficulty of employment), he lowered his ambitions (as he has his whole life; 29 years & counting!) and decided to become a wasp hunter…then an archeologist (he likes Greek mythology and Indiana Jones), then a paleontologist (he thought that archeologists were also into dinosaurs, and that’s what he likes best!) and, finally, an artist… which seems just as unrealistic as those other jobs.."

FABIEN MENSE

Fabien Mense
"Born on April 8th 1979, Fabien grew up in a little town called Ozoir-la-Ferrière. He drew from a very early age, initially as a favor for friends.

After graduating from high school with a focus in Literature, he took lessons at the Penninghen preparatory school. The next year, he was accepted and attended the famous Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg College. While there, he discovered the rich world of animation and met Bill and Gobi.

After graduating in 2003, Fabien was hired by the Marathon animation studio. During his employment at Marathon, he was a storyboard artist for the ‘Totally Spies’ animated television series. He also became a character designer for the ‘Team Galaxy’ series. During this time, Fabien worked for book publisher Flammarion as a Lead Artist of the ‘Les Sauvenatures’ children book series. ‘Les Sauvenatures’ is currently in development as an animated series by Alphanim.
In 2006, Fabien was back in touch with Bill and Gobi and joined them on the ‘Lucha Libre’ project, a collective of comics published by Les Humanoïdes Associés. Fabien created the ‘Lucha Libre’ comic series ‘The Tikitis’ with Jerry Frissen.

From 2008 to 2009, Fabien has been working as a character designer for ‘Hotel Transylvania’, the last full-length animated film by Sony Image Works."

LES MADELEINES DE MADY

Les Madeleines de Mady
online comic diary
"Madeleine, oui, comme le gâteau rendu célèbre par Proust, d'où le Mady et d'où le titre du blog... Et sinon ici je parle de ce que j'aime et de ce que j'ai en mémoire, avec tendresse ou avec humour, et en dessin...voilà !"

TATSUYUKI TANAKA

Tatsuyuki Tanaka
"Tanaka was one of the key animators on Akira and was responsible for, among other things, the animation of Testuo’s rapidly mutating arm. His still illustrations draw from similar imagery, telling stories of young people set in a crumbling future, and filled with grotesque experiments and bizarre creatures. The images below come from Tanaka’s art book Cannabis Works."