Illustrationintheworld

  Henri Fournier (Le Mans, 14 April 1871 - Paris, 18 December 1919) was a French racing driver. Fournier began his career on motorcycles and tricycles. In 1901 he came to the Mors stable and was the most successful driver of that year, winning both Paris-Bordeaux and Paris-Berlin. In addition to his racing career, he performed well in speed tests and set a new record for the mile in his car in the United States. At the 1902 Paris-Vienna he also dominated the first stage with an average speed of 114 km/h, but later had to give up due to a transmission failure. In the autumn of that year, he set the then land speed record at 123 km/h.

  Georges de Feure (real name Georges Joseph van Sluijters, 6 September 1868 – 26 November 1943) was a French painter, theatrical designer, and industrial art designer in the symbolism and Art Nouveau styles. De Feure was born in Paris. His father was an affluent Dutch architect, and his mother was Belgian. De Feure had two sons, Jean Corneille and Pierre Louis, in the early 1890s with his mistress Pauline Domec and a daughter with his first wife Marguerite Guibert (married 7 July 1897). In 1886, de Feure was one of the eleven students admitted at the Rijkscademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, which he did however leave very quickly for Paris since he felt that formal academic training had nothing to offer him. Being of very independent nature, de Feure never again took up formal artistic studies, and forged his own independent path. He was however influenced by Jules Chéret in his posters for the café concert but most likely was never his pupil and became the key designe...

  Jean Veber (13 February 1864 – 28 November 1928) was a French caricaturist and painter. He was born in Paris and trained as a painter, he became an illustrator when his brother Pierre urged him to join the staff of the newspaper Gil Blas. In 1897, his drawing depicting Otto von Bismarck as a butcher of his own people caused a major controversy. Some of his caricatures were also published in L'Assiette au Beurre and Le Rire. Veber volunteered into service in World War I at fifty years of age. He was intoxicated by poisonous gases and demobilized in the course of 1918. Jean Veber died in 1928.

  He's an illustrator and designer from Silver Spring, Maryland. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design he left for Burbank, California to work as Lead Background Designer on Cartoon Network's Steven Universe. Since then he has done art for Cartoon Network, My Brother My Brother and Me, JoCo Cruise, Tender Claws, Supercell, Netflix, Nickelodeon, 20th Century Animation, and Titmouse, Inc. among other clients. Most recently he was working as Assistant Art Director on Disney's The Owl House. On the side, he enjoys drawing knights and wizards and fantasy worlds, and helping out with small video games.

  The French comic artist Baptiste Gaubert (Gobi) grew up in Nîmes, and became an avid fan of Japanese animation while growing up. He enrolled at the Applied Arts section of the Camargue high school, where he met Bill Otomo. The duo later went to Strasbourg, where they studied Decorative Arts, and where they worked with Fabien Mense on the animation film 'Catfish Hôtel'. They made their debuts as comic artists in Tchô! magazine with the series 'Zblu Cops', that was published in books by Glénat between 2005 and 2011. Gobi was also one of the participating artists for Jerry Frisen's anthology series 'Lucha Libre', and was the sole artist of the spin-off ' Tequila' in 2008 and 2009 (Les Humanoïdes Associés). He returned to Glénat, where he created his own series 'Goligo' in 2013. He is a member of the creative art team Catfish Deluxe and also works on animation projects.

  Bengal is a French comics artist. While he has yet to become permanent artist on any mainstream ongoing series, Bengal has made many high-profile appearances, including the Batgirl: Endgame one-shot and an issue of Guardians Team-Up. He's now officially working on a series for french publisher Delcourt, with writer Andoryss, and I'll be doing commissioned/cover work for both Marvel & DC Comics.

  Jules-Alexandre Grün (25 May 1868 – 15 February 1938) was a French post-impressionist painter, poster artist, and illustrator. Grun's best known painting is called The Dinner Party, produced in 1911. It was, however, in the fields of poster art and illustration art, for which he was famous. He was employed at a large printing company in Paris and his artistic director was Jules Chéret. Chéret was also his main competitor in poster art.

  Melody is currently Storyboard artist for Pixar, formerly Nickelodeon, Marvel, Disney tv, Ankama and Illumination Mac Guff. She created and managed a free webforum on storytelling and drawing and is an author and and creator of internationally successful IP, comics and books. Melody considers herself above all an author and the focus of her career is her personal artistic development and the creation of her own intellectual properties, which she pursues throughout her professional career. She has also been a teacher at the Gobelins animation school and is always looking for possibilities to share her experiences on how to become a professional in the world of animation.

  Bill Otomo, who signs with simply Bill, was born in 1981 in Rouen and grew up in the Nîmes area from the age of 3. He earned a BA in Applied Arts at only 17, and formed a team with artist Gobi, with whom he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg in 1998. The two were noticed during various competitions for young talents in Angoulême, and Bill made his first professional appearances in Tchô! magazine. Bill and Gobi have written and drawn the manga-inspired series 'Zblu Cops' for Tchô! and Dargaud between 2005 and 2011. Bill was part of Jerry Frisen's art team for 'Lucha Libre', a comic based on the successful wrestler themed designer toy line. He also drew the spin-off 'Luchadores Five' (2008-2010) for Les Humanoïdes Associés. In 2012 he launched the adult humor series 'Krrpk' in Delcourt's Shampooing collection.

  Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, known as Ferdinand Bac, (15 August 1859, Stuttgart, Germany - 18 November 1952, Compiegne, France) was a German-French cartoonist, artist and writer, son of an illegitimate nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. As a young man, he mixed in the fashionable world of Paris of the Belle Époque, and was known for his caricatures, which appeared in popular journals. He also traveled widely in Europe and the Mediterranean. In his fifties, he began a career as a landscape gardener. The gardens that he created at Les Colombières in Menton on the French Riviera are now designated as a Monument Historique. He also wrote voluminously about social, historical and political subjects, but his work has been largely forgotten.

  Arthur De Pins (1977) grew up in Versailles. Educated in a religious boarding school, he naturally began drawing monsters and naked women. In 1999 he made a short film which required him to learn vector drawing techniques which would remain his passion for many years to come. The need, in 2001, to create characters with large heads and small stylized bodies for a video game inspired him to create what would become his famous characters in The fixed nail (“Péchés Mignons”). In 2004 he made the short film La marche du crabe, which won no less than fifty-two film awards and was sooner or later destined to become an animated feature film. He writes and draws the humorous series Zombillénium, to which he alternates the volumes of the March of the Crab trilogy.