Václav Šlajch Illustrator & Author

Jean-Gaspard Páleníček (1978) is a poet, writer, art and film curator, and translator born in Prague, Czech Republic. He has published four literature books and wrote the scripts for the comic book Iogi (awarded Bronze at the 15th Japan International Manga Award Award in 2021). As a translator specialising in texts on art, film and music, he has collaborated with art institutions such as the Grand Palais, the Pompidou Centre, the National Gallery in Prague and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. He has also given lectures at Sorbonne University Paris, Meiji University, Seijo University and Joshibi University of Art and Design. Václav Šlajch (1980) is a comic author and illustrator, head of the Media Illustration Studio at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. In 2010 and 2022, he received the prestigious Muriel comic book award in the Czech Republic, and he has collaborated with a world-famous Czech director Jan Svěrák.