About the Author

Judith Vanistendael creates comics 'that have to do with life as it really is'. She is the mother of two children and has lived in Brussels since she was five. Vanistendael studied at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin, earned an academic degree in art sciences from the Univeristy of Ghent, did postgraduate studies on Latin America, and followed the comc strip course at the Sint Lukas art school in Brussels. Her semi-autobiographical work Dance by the Light of the Moon was nominated twice for the prestigious Angouleme Grand Prize.