A Few of Our Contributors

  • Amad Mir

    Amad Mir | Artist

    is an Iranian comic book author, storyboarder and background artist. He has created comics for international publishers like Dargaud and Dark Horse Comics.

  • Benoît Hamet | Artist

    is a French illustrator and cartoonist who lived and worked in Istanbul for 7 years, before settling in Angoulême. His work has appeared in reviews and magazines in France and Turkey.

  • Camilo Vieco | Artist

    works fulltime in an animation studio in Bogota as an art director. He works on comic projects in his spare time. He has a Masters degree in comics from l'Ecole Européenne Supérieure de l'Image (EESI) Angoulême, France.

  • Chema Peral | Artist

    is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator residing in Reus, Catalonia. He has published three comics, Waiting for Jean Michel, Budapest and Born in Spring. He combines his passion for drawing with his work as a tattoo artist, DJ and radio host.

  • Harry Pearson | Writer

    is a writer and journalist from north east England. He is the author of twelve works of non-fiction. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate for his services to literature by the University of Teesside.

  • Jonathan Gil Harris | Writer

    is Professor of English at Ashoka University. He is the author of six books on early modern literature and culture, including the bestselling The First Firangis.

  • Mike Brown | Writer

    is one of the world’s most influential astronomers. He’s called Pluto Killer for demoting the former 9th planet to “dwarf planet”. Mike has been Professor of Planetary Astronomy at CalTech since 2003, where his lab is trying to tell the story of the evolution of the solar system.

  • Nacha Vollenweider | Artist

    is a comic book artist based in Río Cuarto, Argentina. She has a degree in Painting from the National University of Córdoba and an MFA from the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. She is the author of the graphic novel Zurück in die Heimat.

  • Nicolas Wild

    is the author of critically-acclaimed graphic novels such as Kabul Disco trilogy, Silent was Zarathustra, and À la Maison des femmes which won the Prix Atomium de la BD citoyenne, Brussels (2023). His work has been translated into six languages and has appeared on Arté. 

  • Pallavi Aiyar | Writer

    has lived in and written about India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Belgium and Spain. She is a journalist and the author of several books, most recently a memoir of her years in Japan titled Orienting: An Indian in Japan.

  • Preeta Samarasan | Writer

    grew up in Malaysia and now lives in France. Her interests include constructs of race, ethnicity, and identity, childhood and memory, histories of music and food. Her second novel, Tale of the Dreamer’s Son, was published in 2022.

  • Dr Sharad Paul | Writer

    is an award winning skin cancer surgeon based in New Zealand. His extensive authority and body of work in medicine include books, lectures, thought-leadership and skincare.

  • Sole Otero | Artist

    got her degree in textile design at the University of Buenos Aires, graduating in 2010. She was part of the Latin American collective Historietas Reales and of the international collective Chicks on Comics. In 2019, she won the Fnac-Salamandra prize for her graphic novel project Naftalina. She's also the author of the graphic novels Intensa and Pacho Fue.

  • Valentina Principe | Artist

    is an Italian comic book artist based in France. She has worked with publishers in France, Italy and Lebanon. Her first graphic novel was published in 2021. She's currently illustrating a fiction horror novel.