Christian Maiwald was born in 1977. After studying cultural studies and majoring with a thesis paper on the history of public perception of comics in Germany he started working for different publishers in the comics field. Since 2005 he is working for Reprodukt in different positions, mainly as producer and editor. He also co-maintains the online portal www.graphic-novel.info.

David Schilter is the co-founder of kuš!, the only comics anthology in Latvia. Kuš! www.komikss.lv was founded in 2007 and regularly releases comics from Latvian and international contributors. Apart from publishing comics, kuš! also organizes exhibitions, workshops and other comics related activities.

Founded by Ria Schulpen as a comic library in 1985, Bries finally grew into a small but adventurous editorial. Bries loves to explore the endless possibilities of visual storytelling and publishes books that move on the fine line between comics, literature and art. www.bries.be

 

Eleonora spent her childhood in Algeria, where she studied in a French school. That was the beginning of her eternal love for comics. She was the manager of a comic book shop and also one of the organisers of the First Budapest Comic Festival (2005). She is now Managing Director of a comic book publisher and distributor company and also the President

of the Hungarian Comics Association (kepregeny.info)