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The Artists

DANIJEL ŽEŽELJ
illustrator

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.

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SÉRA
illustrator

whose real name is Phoussera Ing, was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1961. When he was 14 years old, he fled with his mother to France and lived in Paris. In 1979 he published his first illustration in the French comic magazine Circus. In 1987, Séra finished his education with a Master of Plastic Art at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Since then he teaches as a professor at the Paris 1 and the École supérieure des Arts et Techniques comics and illustration. After several publications in french and japanese magazines Séra went back to his homeland in 1993. "L'Eau et la Terre", a graphic novel about the reign of terror and genocide by the Khmer Rouge was published in 2005, a year later the cambodian version.

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GREG RUTH
illustrator

has worked in comics since 1993 and has created published work for The New York Times, DC Comics, Paradox Press, Fantagraphics Books, Caliber Comics, Dark Horse Comics and The Matrix. He has shown his paintings in New York, Houston, and Baltimore, also exhibiting a series of murals at New York's Grand Central Terminal in 2002. He recently completed a six-issue series for Dark Horse entitled Freaks of the Heartland with writer Steve Niles, more comics for The Matrix and is developing children's books, and film and television material through Narrative Arts Inc. including The Woodland Chronicles, The Orphan's Club, Hamlet, and The Dead Letter Office. Upcoming projects include a Goosebumps story published by Scholastic's Graphix Imprint, a new Sherlock Holmes book (also for Scholastic) featuring the Band of Irregulars and a new release of the Sudden Gravity graphic novel published by Dark Horse Comics that was both illustrated and written by Greg.

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STEFANO RICCI
illustrator

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GEORGE PRATT
illustrator

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.

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LORENZO MATTOTTI
illustrator

was born in Brescia, Italy in 1954. After studying architecture, he decided to devote himself to comics and is recognised today as one of the most outstanding international exponents of the art. His works have been published in the most important magazines and his comic-books such as "Fires", "Caboto", "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" are translated all over the world. For children he has illustrated "Pinocchio" by Collodi, "The Pavilion on the Links" by Stevenson and has published "Eugenio" that had the Grand Prix of Bratislava in 93. He works in the fashion-field, on advertising campaigns and as cover-illustrator on Magazines like The New Yorker, Le Monde and Süddeutsche Zeitung. His filmworks includes "Eros", "Peur(s) du noir", and "Pinocchio"

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NIC KLEIN
illustrator

was born in Duesseldorf, Germany in 1978 and works as a freelance illustrator for the comics and entertainment industries. His work has been widely published in the United States, and Klein's clients include names such as Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Wizard of the Coast, Radical Comics, Panini Comics, Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Microsoft Games, Ehapa Comics, and ImagineFX. His Viking mini-series, published by Image Comics in 2009, became an immediate independent hit in the US comic book market and is now available as an oversized hardcover edition. Currently Nic is working on Doc Savage for DC Comics.

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THIERRY VAN HASSELT
illustrator

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.

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BENJAMIN FLAÓ
illustrator

was born in Nantes, France in 1975. When he was 14 years old, Flaó left state school to enrol 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 Publici-taire 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 Mam-muthus 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 regularly drawing documented.

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DAVID VON BASSEWITZ
illustrator

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, 3x3 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.

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