Havana Split Vol. 1

About the Author

Frédéric Brémaud—also known under the pseudonyms of Brrémaud, Labrémure, and Lili Mésange—was born on March 11, 1973 in Seoul, South Korea. He spent his childhood in the north of the French department Deux-Sèvres and on the island of Noirmoutier. After studying in La Rochelle and Newcastle, he worked at the Centre national de la bande dessinée et de l'image, in Angoulême, where he met many authors. A few years later, in 1999, he published his first album: volume 1 of Cœur de royaume (Soleil), illustrated by Benoît Vieillard. A prolific author, he never stopped writing! Today he has more than a hundred titles, of all genres and for all audiences, with Soleil, Glénat, Paquet, and Bamboo. In 2018, Frédéric Brémaud was nominated in the Early Readers category of the Eisner Awards. In 2021, he published volume 5 of Love (Vents d'Ouest).

Vic Macioci was born in Rome in 1991. After graduating from high school in literature, she moved to France for her studies and graduated from the Émile Cohl School (Lyon) in 2016, specializing in comics and illustration. Her first series, Gravity Level, a sci-fi series written by Lorenzo Palloni and published by Sarbacane, earned her the Gran Guinigi Award for Best Drawing at Lucca Comics & Games 2020. She then participated in the anthology Nées Rebelles, written by Morin, Derain, and Hopman and published by Démain. She is also an illustrator (Giunti, Ablaze) and a character designer for video games, including Roller Drama and Becoming Saint (Open Lab). She also teaches character design and traditional techniques at the international visual development school Idea Academy in Rome.