Joann Sfar is a French comics artist, comic book creator, novelist, and film director. Nice-born, Joann Sfar studied painting before enrolling at the Parisian School of Fine Arts in the Morphology section. He made his debut in 1994 when the publishing house Cornélius published his first book, 'Les Aventures d'Ossour Hyrsidoux'. He then became one of the regular artists of the renewing publishing house L'Association, and published his comics on a regular base in the movement's review Lapin, and in its Patte de Mouche collection.