Joann Sfar is a French comics artist, comic book creator, novelist, and film director.
Emmanuel Larcenet, known as Manu Larcenet is a French cartoonist. He worked with Fluide Glacial magazine from 1995 to 2006 and with Spirou magazine from 1997 to 2004. He has also founded the French publisher Les Rêveurs in 1998. Since 2000, he mostly works with Dargaud.
Laurent Chabosy, better known as Lewis Trondheim, is a French cartoonist and one of the founders of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons.
Le blog de Frantico is a French webcomic authored by Lewis Trondheim under the heteronym Frantico. It ran daily from January 1 to May 31, 2005, and occasionally until 15 October, 2005. The webcomic was presented as an autobiographical work by an aspiring cartoonist named Frantico, who chronicles his daily life. Le blog de Frantico was compiled into a comic book published by Albin Michel in October 2005, and it was nominated for the 2006 Prize for First Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
Guy Delisle is a Canadian cartoonist and animator, best known for his graphic novels about his travels, such as Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China (2000), Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (2003), Burma Chronicles (2007), and Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City (2011).
Babatunde Omoroga Adebimpe is an American musician, singer-songwriter, actor, director, and visual artist best known as the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio.
Oubapo is a comics movement which believes in the use of formal constraints to push the boundaries of the medium. OuBaPo is styled after the French literary movement Oulipo, founded by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Oubapo was founded in November 1992 in the Ou-X-Po and announced in L'Association's French comics edition.
Patrice Killoffer, better known simply as Killoffer, is a writer and artist of comics. He was co-founder of the independent comics publisher L'Association in 1990, and has been a part of Oubapo since its creation in 1992.
Kathryn Moira Beaton is a Canadian comics artist best known as the creator of the comic strip Hark! A Vagrant, which ran from 2007 to 2018. Her other major works include the children's books The Princess and the Pony and King Baby, published in 2015 and 2016 respectively. The former was made into an Apple TV+ series called Pinecone & Pony released in 2022 on which Beaton worked as an executive producer. Also in 2022, Beaton released a memoir in graphic novel form, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, about her experience working in the Alberta oil sands. Publishers Weekly named Ducks one of their top ten books of the year.
Boulet, the pen name for Gilles Roussel, is a French comic book creator and cartoonist born 1 February 1975 in Meaux, France. He was among the first French cartoonists to become famous by publishing a blog BD, starting in July 2004.
Riad Sattouf is a French cartoonist, comic artist, and film director. Sattouf is best known for his graphic memoir L'Arabe du futur and for his film Les Beaux Gosses. He also worked for the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo for ten years, from 2004 to mid-2014, publishing drawing boards of one of his major works La vie secrète des jeunes.
Jean-Christophe Menu is a French underground cartoonist, graphic designer, comics scholar and publisher, son of the Egyptologist Bernadette Menu. He is best known for being one of the founders of L'Association, an influential comic book and art book publishing company from France often regarded as one of the key figures in the independent comic movement around the world.
Julia Wertz is an American cartoonist, writer and urban explorer.
Carousel is a long-running multimedia comics slide show hosted by cartoonist Robert Sikoryak that has been presented in various venues in the United States and Canada since 1997. Sikoryak has described Carousel as "a cartoon variety show." Carousel has been presented at Dixon Place, MoCCA Fest, Parsons School of Design, The Brick Theater, and other venues.
Sarah Glidden is an American cartoonist known for her nonfiction comics and graphic novels.
Claire Wendling is a French comics author.
Lisa Hanawalt is an American illustrator, writer, and cartoonist. She has published comic series, as well as three books of illustrations. She worked as the production designer and a producer of the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020), and co-hosted the podcast Baby Geniuses (2012–2024) with comedian Emily Heller. She created and executive produced the Netflix/Adult Swim animated series, Tuca & Bertie (2019–2022).
Pizza Island was a shared cartooning studio space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn established in 2010. It was established by Sarah Glidden, Julia Wertz, and Domitille Collardey, and included Kate Beaton, Meredith Gran, Lisa Hanawalt, Karen Sneider, and Deana Sobel Lederman. Unintentionally, it consisted of all-female cartoonists.
Jenny Rakotomamonjy, known by the pen name Jenny, is a Malagasy-born French cartoonist and animator. She is a co-founder of the Chibimag comics studio.
Patricia Lyfoung is a French cartoonist known for her series La Rose écarlate.
