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Abeer Kasiri is a published illustrator and storyteller from Karachi. With over a decade of experience, her journey spans game arts, character designs, comics, and children's picture books. She also gives workshops, sharing her expertise and passion with others, and teaching students the art of storytelling. Through her work, she weaves enchanting tales that reflect her cultural roots and vibrant history, resonating with readers of all ages.

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Aisha Franz is a freelance comic book artist and illustrator based in Berlin. Her latest graphic novel “Work-Life Balance" was awarded the Max and Moritz Prize for best German-language comic in 2022 and was nominated at the FIBD Angoulême. Her book “Shit Is Real" was nominated for the L.A. Times Book Award in 2019. She co-runs the residency project CLUBHOUSE together with Berlin-based print studio and publisher Colorama.

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Ayesha Tariq is a Pakistani multidisciplinary artist and a published author and illustrator of Sarah: The Suppressed Anger of the Pakistani Obedient Daughter. She has worked with comedy, improv, design, and illustration. She also has teaching experience in Improv, Drama and Illustration, and continues offering workshops to a variety of students.

Bea Davies is an Italian comic artist and illustrator living in Berlin since 2012. She studied visual communication in the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. Her first graphic novel "The King of Vagabonds" was published in 2019 by avant-verlag. She is currently working on her new graphic novel and several children's books.

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Debasish Deb graduated in Applied Art from Kolkata’s Government Art College in 1979 and joined Ananda Bazar group as an illustrator. Over the last 40 years, he worked with various publications in India and abroad and has gained a reputation in the world of children’s literature. His pioneering book on filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s graphic work remains a best seller. He also travels widely making improvised sketches, several collections of which have been developed into books.

Maren Amini is an illustrator, comic artist and cartoonist from Hamburg, Germany. She uses humour as a means of communication because humour makes heavy things light, and laughter is more important than ever these days.

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Paul Paetzel was born in 1984 in Berlin. He studied visual communication at the University of Arts Berlin. He is still living there, working as an illustrator and comic-artist, and teaches comic-making to children.

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Satwik Gade is a writer and comics journalist based in Chennai, India. He is a Fulbright scholar and has been published in Indian and American newspapers like The Hindu and Washington Post. He is also an award-winning children’s book illustrator and moonlights as a campaign artist for social impact projects. His first novel The Alice Project was published by Harper Collins India in 2022. 

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Shoili Kanungo is a visual artist and comics maker based in New Delhi. She is inspired by everything. Snippets read and overheard, city walks, cosmology, mythology, our emotional lives, and the enchanting dullness of everyday. The personal, the political, the subconscious world of forms, they mingle.

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Tine Fetz, born in 1984 in Bad Kreuznach, is living as an illustrator and comic artist in Berlin. After studying in Münster as well as abroad in Jerusalem and completing an artist residency in Brazil, she received the Berlin Comic Scholarship in 2023. Her comics, regularly featured in a weekly newspaper, have been published in various magazines and books, the latest being 'Du weißt es doch schon,' published by Parallelallee in 2023.

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