Anne Simon was born in 1980 and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angoulême and at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. In 2004, she was awarded the Young Talent Prize at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême. Anne Simon is very active in the French independent publishing house MISMA, where she has already published several books of her own and for whose anthology Dopututto Max she regularly writes short stories. Her works appear regularly in newspapers, magazines and in the form of picture books. For more than ten years, she has been writing and drawing the saga of the land of Marylène in which she skillfully weaves social issues into epic narratives with strong protagonists.

Alice Socal wurde 1986 in Venedig geboren. Sie begann ihr Studium in Illustration und Comic an der Kunst Akademie von Bologna und beendete dieses bei Anke Feuchtenberger und Stefano Ricci an der HAW in Hamburg. Sie zeichnet gerne kurze GIF-Animationen für ihren Tumblr-Blog und lebt und arbeitet als Illustratorin in Hamburg.

Ihre Kurzgeschichten wurden in mehreren Magazinen wie Two Fast Colour, Beautox und Spring veröffentlicht, sowie in den Anthologien vom Mami Verlag und des italienischen Verlags G.I.U.D.A., bei dem 2011 auch ihr erstes Buch LUKE erschien. Sandro ist ihre erste Veröffentlichung bei Rotopol. 2015 ist das Buch bereits auf italienisch bei Eris Edizioni erschienen und wurde bei den Comic Festivals in Treviso und Bologna mit Ausstellungen präsentiert.

Webseite: www.alicesocal.de
Blog: go-faq-yourself.tumblr.com

Mikkel Sommer was born in 1987 und grew up in Denmark. He has been working on comics, children‘s books, illustration and cartoons since 2009. He lives with author Anna Rakhmanko and their daughter in Athens and Berlin.




Webseite: mikkelsommer.com

Sebastian Stamm was born in Naila in Upper Frankonia in 1983. He is living and working as a game designer, illustrator and comic book artist in Berlin. Since his childhood he has been interested in machines, robots and unique fictional characters.

You can find all that in his very first book release Leschek’s Flug. This comic book is also his final thesis at the School of Art and Design Kassel. There he studied illustration, animation and visual communications. In 2013 he passed his studies in comic and illustration with distinction. He his co-founder and creative director of the indie game studio Black Pants Studio, wher he also co-developed the multi awarded computer game Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers. As an illustrator he was amongst others responsible for the extraordinary visual style of the game, the characters and the game environment.

Sebastian Stamm enjoys cosy bars, hearty food and the Frankonian forest.

Websites: the-stamm.com, blackpants.de

was born in Dresden in 1993. After living in Denmark and Albania, she began her studies at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig in 2013, which she completed in 2019 with her book “Witches” as a diploma project. Her work moves between illustration, painting and comic. She is part of the SQUASH collective, which she founded together with three friends. Malwine lives and works in Leipzig.

Webseite: https://malwinestauss.com

Quentin Vijoux, geboren 1983, wuchs im 20. Arrondissement von Paris auf. In Paris studierte er auch Visuelle Kommunikation, zunächst an der ÉSAA Duperré, anschließend an der École Estienne. Seitdem arbeitet er als freier Illustrator für die Werbung und die internationale Presse.

Seine Illustrationen und Comics erscheinen unter anderem in der New-York Times, in Télérama, revue XXI oder im Playboy. Eugène ist sein Buch-Debüt als Comiczeichner. Es wurde beim Pariser Independent-Verlag Michel Lagarde erstveröffentlicht.

Quentin Vijoux interessiert sich neben Comics für Typografie, kleine Insekten, Franz Kafka, Taï-chi, Videospiele und alte Science-Fiction-Filme.

Webseite: quentinvijoux.com
Blog: quentinvijoux.com/blog

born 1983, has been working as a freelance cartoonist since completing his studies in communication design at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Arts. He draws backgrounds, characters and storyboards for cartoon series such as “Clarence”, “Adventure Time”, “Summer Camp Island” or “The Fungies”. He also writes and draws his own comics and occasionally creates video games with friends such as “Miracle Merchant”. His comics debut “Der Ziegensauger” was published by Rotopol in 2011 and had a lasting influence on the German comics scene due to its loose lineart and humorous narrative style. Since then, Thomas Wellmann has published six books with Rotopol including three volumes of his children’s comic series “Nika, Lotte, Mangold!” and his comics series “Pimo & Rex”. Thomas works as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines including Polle, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel and ZEIT Leo and illustrated the children’s book “Oma zu Verkaufen” by Martin Baltscheit (Kibitz Verlag). Together with his family, he lives in a small house near Münster.

Website: www.thomaswellmann.com

born in 1977, of japanese-german descent, grown up in Bayreuth. Studied industrial design at the School of Art and Design Kassel and at the university I.U.A.V. in Venice, diploma in 2007. Since 2004 he has been working as a freelance dsigner. Projects in co-operation with Consorzio B.D.S. Italia, Craft Link Vietnam, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Pfanner Getränke GmbH, Becker Formholz, Schott Zwiesel, ArjoWiggins, Papierfabrik am Neckar. Awards for Bruno Winter.

Website: tubadesign.com