Incidents in the Night: Volume 1

About David B.

David B. was born on February 9 1959 in Nimes France. He studied Fine Art in Paris at l'école Duperré. His first graphic novel (comic album in France) was published in 1986 by Bayard in 1986. During this time he was a regular contributor to the magazine Okapi et Chic and he serialized a story in the seminal French comics magazine A Suivre. Since then he has worked with virtually every major publisher in French comics. In 1990 he co-founded the important French comic publisher L'Association along with fellow cartoonists Jean-Christophe Menu Stanislas Mattt Konture Killoffer and Lewis Trondheim. By 1996 what is considered David B.'s major work to date L'Ascension du Haut Mal was published. The story recounting his childhood with his epileptic brother will be published by Pantheon in early 2005 as Epileptic. BRIAN EVENSON is the author of ten books of fiction most recently the limited edition novella Baby Leg published by New York Tyrant Press in 2009. In 2009 he also published the novel Last Days (which won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009) and the story collection Fugue State both of which were on Time Out New York's top books of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an IHG Award. His work has been translated into French Italian Spanish Japanese and Slovenian. He lives and works in Providence Rhode Island where he directs Brown University's Literary Arts Program. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection) Dark Property and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly Jean Frémon Claro Jacques Jouet Eric Chevillard Antoine Volodine and others. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship.