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was born in Feuchtwangen, Germany in 1963. He studied Illustration and Graphic Design at the Trier University of Applied Sciences. Nowadays he is primarily known for his regularly illustration work for German newspapers and magazines like Süddeutsche Zeitung, TAZ and mare. He has released four graphic novels – most recently „Das große Rauschen“ – and one children book. His comic-work has been nominated twice for the award of the „Best German Graphic Novel.” He’s a member of the international artist group Poste Aérienne and editior of „45 – A Single Cover Album.”

www.dieterjuedt.com

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was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1969. Van Hasselt teaches the subject Comics at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts St-Luc in Brussels, where he also studied. His main focus is graphic-specific literature. Together with Vincent Fortemps he founded the Belgian comic book publisher Fréon, which merged in 2002 with the French publishing house Amok to Frémok. For his first album, Gloria Lopez in Angoulême, he was awarded the Prix Etranger Alph’Art. In 2009 he was one of the co-authors of the book Game of Catch at Vielsam which Frémok published in cooperation with handicapped artists of the ECC Hessen. Van Hasselt cooperates for his work extensively with the choreographer Karine Pontier or the writer Mylène Lauzon.

Thierry van Hasselt

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was born in Beaumont, United States in 1960. He studied at the Pratt Institute in New York, and since has worked as an illustrator for various art and comic books, including Batman, Sandman, magazines, and exhibitions. His most successful work was his interpretation of the Enemy-Ace stories from DC-Comics. His graphic novel Enemy Ace: War Idyll, published in 1989, was highly decorated with numerous industry awards. He illustrated for Marvel Comics the series Wolverine: Netsuke for which he was awarded the Eisner Award at Comic-Con International in 2003.

George Pratt

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about Stefano Ricci

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was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1966. Žeželj studied classical painting, sculpting and printing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. His comics and illustrations have been published by DC Comics/Vertigo, Marvel Comics, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s Magazine, San Francisco Guardian, Editori del Grifo, Edizioni Charta and others. In 2001 in Zagreb, he founded the publishing house and graphic workshop Petikat. Four years later he became the first comic book artist ever to have a solo exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. His work has been published and exhibited in Croatia, Slovenia, UK, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Sweden, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil and the USA.

Danijel Žeželj

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was born in Nantes, France in 1975. When he was 14 years old, Flaó left state school to enroll at the École d’arts Graphiques de Saint-Luc in Tournei, near the Belgian capital of Brussels. Two years later he joined the École de Graphisme Publicitaire in his home town of Nantes. In 1994 he went to Lyon in order to specialize in comics, cartoons and illustrations at the famous École Emile Cohl. Under the pseudonym Hekel & Jekel Flaó led jointly by YanNick Chambon varied illustrational works such as murals, caricatures and graffitis. In 2003 Flaó won with his travel diary about the Mammuthus Expedition of Siberia the Travel-Book-Price of the Biennial Lonely Planet in Clermont-Ferrand, central France. Since 1998, Flaó undertook several motorcycle travels through Africa, especially Burkina Faso and Eritrea, which he documented through drawings.

Benjamin Flao

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was born in Giessen, Germany in 1975. He studied Cinematography at Erlangen University and Illustration at the University of Applied Sciences in Wuerzburg, Germany. His drawings are published in DER SPIEGEL, Die Zeit, stern, Le Nouvel Observateur, The New Scientist, BBC History Magazine, Sciences et Avenir, Jung von Matt, Grabarz&Partner, SidLee Montreal, Birkhaeuser Verlag, HoerBild Verlag, Luerzer´s Archive: The world´s 200 best illustrators, Die Automate-Hoerbild Verlag, Licht für Städte-Birkhaeuser Verlag, ADC Sushi-Magazin, Freistil, 3×3 Magazine, and Taschen: Illustration Now. He was awarded with the ADC Auszeichnungen, Golden Award of Montreux, Silver Lion of Cannes, and Le Grand Prix de la Bande Dessinée Européenne.

David von Bassewitz