Sanctum Genesis

About Christophe BecPhilippe Thirault

Christophe Bec is a writer and artist. Born in France he spent the first few months of his life in Morocco due to his parent's work. Attracted to comics from an early age he began his career by producing fanzines one of which earned a Best Fanzine nomination at Angoulême Comics Festival. He joined the Comics School of Angoulême the next year. Known for the art behind Absolute Zero Sanctum and Prometheus he is also the author of Pandemonium Shadows of Salamanca and Carthago. Sanctum earned him nominations for Best Comic Album at both the Cognac Detective Film Festival and the Jules Vernes Film Festival. He also won the Uderzo Prize for his series Lent.Philippe Thirault is a French novelist and comics writer who was born in Paris in 1967. In the late 1990s he published the novel Feathered Serpent the trilogy Hemoglobin Blues and his first comic series the critically acclaimed Miss: Better Living Through Crime. He has since become a very prolific comic book creator writing series such as Thousand Faces The Hounds of Hell Balkans Arena and Mandalay. He often writes stories with a historical or fantastic setting and runs writing workshops in Paris.Stefano Raffaele was born in Milan and made his professional comics debut as an artist with the series Lazarus Ledd written by Ade Capone for Star Comics. With Capone he also created the mini-series The Power and the Glory the first Italian superhero comic. In 1995 Raffaele began working for the American market with stints on Hawkeye and X-Factor. He set up his Quantumdream studios in 2001 and created his first solo project Loving Dead (also known as Fragile) in 2003. In the mid-2000s Stefano migrated to the European market where he teamed up with scribe Christophe Bec to create the horror series Pandemonium based on the Waverly Hills Sanatorium legend. The project served as a launching pad for an on-going collaboration with the prolific Bec including another horror outing The Shadows of Salamanca also published by Humanoids.