About the Author

Thierry Smolderen, Angoulême, France, is a comics writer and scholar who teaches at the École européenne supérieure de l'image.|Bart Beaty, Calgary, Alberta, is associate professor of communication and culture at the University of Calgary. Together, Nick Nguyen and he have translated The System of Comics by Thierry Groensteen and Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of the American Comic Book by Jean-Paul Gabilliet, both published by University Press of Mississippi.|Nick Nguyen, Brussels, Belgium, is an independent historian and researcher. Together, Bart Beaty and he have translated The System of Comics by Thierry Groensteen and Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of the American Comic Book by Jean-Paul Gabilliet, both published by University Press of Mississippi.