Fabien Toulmé (born 1980 in Orléans) is a French comic book writer and illustrator.

Originally trained as an engineer, he became known to the wider public for his autobiographical graphic novel, Ce n’est pas toi que j’attendais (“It’s not you I was waiting for”), in which he describes his personal struggle with his second daughter being born with Down Syndrome.

He is also know for his work Les Deux Vies de Baudouin and has published the Hakim’s Odyssey trilogy, translations of which are forthcoming from Graphic Mundi.

You can read Foreword Reviews interview with Fabien HERE.

AVELINE STOKART is visual development artist and comic book artist living in Belgium. From an early age, she showed a particular interest in drawing, a natural fit, as she is highly curious and observant, quite sensitive, and marvels at the beauty held within the simplest of things. 

Fascinated by character design and creating universes for them, she develops a unique dimension to her creations by studying 3D Animation at the Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard in Belgium, where she graduated in 2011. 

Then, she continues her journey alone, since it’s in self-taught that she continues to learn more, having the will to deepen her knowledge in visual development. 

She currently works as a freelancer for various clients in the field of publishing and animation.

When she’s not drawing, Aveline likes to express herself musically, by singing, and playing the guitar, piano and the ukulele.

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M.L. SMOKER belongs to the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation in north-eastern Montana. She is Montana’s current Poet Laureate. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula, where she was the recipient of the Richard Hugo Fellowship. She is also a graduate of Pepperdine University, and attended UCLA and the University of Colorado. Smoker Broaddus currently works for the Office of Public Instruction as the Director of Indian Education. She has spent the past seven years overseeing the work of statewide Indian Education for All Efforts and the Schools of Promise initiative, which seeks to turnaround the states lowest performing schools. In 2015, she was named the Indian Educator of Year by the National Indian Education Association. She was also recently appointed to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education by President Barack Obama. She was formerly an administrator in her home community of Frazer, Montana for three years. She has taught courses at Fort Peck Community College and the University of Montana. She has published one collection of poems, Another Attempt at Rescue (Hanging Loose Press, 2005). She has also served as a writer and consultant on the PBS documentaries Before There Were Parks and Indian Relay (which earned her a regional Emmy award).