Thierry Groensteen, Brussels, Belgium, is a prominent comics scholar and author of numerous books including The System of Comics and Comics and Narration, both published by University Press of Mississippi. He has held a number of prestigious positions over the years including editor of Les Cahiers de la bande dessinée; director of the comics museum housed in the Cité international de la bande dessinée et de l'image in Angoulême, where he is now a project director and curator; and editor in chief of 9ème Art.
Ann Miller, Oxford, United Kingdom, is University Fellow in French at the University of Leicester; author of Reading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip; and coeditor of Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography and The French Comics Theory Reader.