By The Numbers: #1 The Road To Cao Bang

Born in 1959, Laurent Rullier is a French comics writer. A historian by training, he was a freelance journalist who together with Stanislas created the adventures of Victor Levallois, whom he described as “a Nick Hornby hero in a Joseph Conrad novel.” He also contributed to the TV adaptations of Spirou, Kid Paddle and Papyrus and in 2005 created a new series ‘Antoine Sèvres’, about a monk who must solve a series of murders.

Stanislas Barthélemy was born in 1961 and initially studied interior decoration, but turned to creating comics in 1982 by publishing his own fanzines. In the late 1980s, he began collaborating with writer Laurent Rullier, with whom he began the series ‘Victor Levallois’. Stanislas co-founded the alternative publishing house L'Association in 1990 and was also the artist of the biographical graphic novel about Hergé, called 'The Adventures of Hergé', which was written by Jean-Luc Fromental and José-Luis Bocquet in 1991.