Beatrice Alemagna is an Italian illustrator and writer. She was born in Bologna in 1973 and studied at the graphic school in Urbino (ISIA). In 1997 she moved to Paris, where she currently lives, and worked as a poster artist for the Center Pompidou for over ten years. Her book “On a Magical Do-Nothing Day” (Harper Collins 2017) is one of the ten best illustrated children’s books of 2017 according to the New York Times and the New York Public Library and was awarded the Golden Medal for Original Art by the Society of Illustrators. Beatrice Alemagna received the Italian Premio Andersen as Illustrator of the Year in 2010 and was nominated four times for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize. Beatrice Alemagna has published over 30 books for children that have been translated into numerous languages.
 

Born in Penzberg, Upper Bavaria in 1982. Max Baitinger is drawing comics since his apprenticeship as a carpenter. After that he studied illustration at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. He is working as a freelance cartoonist, illustrator and animator.

Website: maxbaitinger.tumblr.com

was born in 1990 in London, UK. He attended Brighton University to study Illustration and in his second year started working for the Cartoon Network show “Uncle Grandpa”. In 2014 he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation (specifically character design on an Uncle Grandpa, “Afraid of the Dark”). Nick moved to Los Angeles in 2016 to continue working for Cartoon Network. Working as a storyboard artist on such shows as: Clarence, Summer Camp Island and Apple & Onion. He lives there still with his partner, Rosie Brand and attempts to make comics in his spare time. Nick is currently working as a Supervising Director on a Cartoon Network show that hasn’t been announced.

Website: instagram.com/nickedwods

was born in Bielefeld in 1990 and studied Visual Communication at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. He is co-founder of the Institute for Contemporary Cartooning and part of the cartoonist collective FanArt. His comics have been published in international anthologies such as Orang, Kuti Kuti, kuš! and Samandal as well as on vice.com. „Langfinger & Wackelzahn“ is his first full-length publication.

Website: michelesselbruegge.com

Christine Färber was born in 1978 and grew up in a small town next to the forest in Upper Franconia. After studying German in Leipzig, she stayed in the big city and has been working here as a journalist and freelance writer ever since. In 2017 she published her first book “Alles auf Jetzt” together with Simone Unger at Christoph Links Verlag. She enjoys to run through the forest and across meadows.
 
 

Markus Färber was born in 1981 in the Franconian Forest. He studied Art Education in Würzburg and later Visual Communication with a focus on illustration in Kassel and Halle. His first book “Reprobus” was published by Rotopol in 2012. Now he lives in Leipzig and works from there as an illustrator and comic artist for a wide variety of agencies and clients. As part of the “Busy Hands” poster collective, he designs concert posters and makes music under the pseudonym “Holob”.

Website: https://markusfaerber.de

is an award-winning author, comic artist and illustrator. His illustrations can be found in works by renowned authors, including Kirsten Hall and Lemony Snicket, and have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His first comic “Ojingogo” (2008, Drawn & Quarterly) was nominated for an Eisner Award and won the Doug Wight Award for Best Experimental Comic. The former lead designer of the animated series “Adventure Time” (Cartoon Network) and designer of the Oscar-nominated stop-motion Christmas film “Robin Robin” (Netflix) now lives in Montreal, Canada.

Webseite: https://comingupforair.net

born in the beautiful Franconian forest in 1986. Since 2006 she has been studying painting and graphic arts at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle (Saale). She is drawing and writing stories – often in co-operation with her sister Ines Christine. Together they are KIIN.

Instagram: instagram.com/kirstencarina & instagram.com/k_i_i_n
Webseite: kirstencarina.com/

Ines Christine was born in the beautiful Franconian forest in 1982. Since 2006 she has been studying illustraion, comic and animation at the School of Art and Design Kassel. Together with her sister Kirsten Carina she is Kiin.

Instagram: instagram.com/icy_gee & instagram.com/k_i_i_n