Lucas Wars: The True Story of George Lucas and the Creation of Star Wars

Graduating from the famous Paris Gobelins School of Arts in 2002, Renaud Roche began his career in visual effects, before turning to storyboarding and illustration. For almost twenty years, he worked in cinema, advertising and press. In 2019, he joined the Illumination Mac Guff studio and helped create feature films, including Sing 2 (2021) and Migration (2023). But it was his love of Star Wars that drew him to comics. After Lucas Wars, he decided to devote himself to the medium full-time.

Laurent Hopman is a journalist and writer. Editor-in-chief in the entertainment press for over twenty years, a specialist in American cinema and an expert on the Star Wars universe, he has long worked in show business. Now a comic book writer, his passion for Star Wars inspired him to write the script for Lucas Wars, the first graphic novel to tell the story of George Lucas and the genesis of Star Wars.

Jeremy Melloul is a two-time Eisner-nominated translator who has translated over ninety titles, bringing Franco-Belgian comics to English-speaking audiences around the world. Despite being born in France and growing up in America, where he eventually began working in the comics industry, Jeremy never expected to be a translator. What started in 2017 as a single opportunity eventually turned into a career through which Jeremy shares his passion and appreciation for incredible comics from around the world.