Gurvan - A Dream of Earth

Born in 1934 and died in 2020, Michel Rigaud, known as Paul-Jean Hérault, was a French novelist. First the author of spy novels in the early 1970s with Fleuve Noir, he quickly moved to science fiction with the saga Cal de Ter whose first volume was published in 1975. Deeply marked by the Algerian war, his work is characterized by the representation of war, described through the prism of its emptiness and the author's aversion to violence.

Born in 1978 in Paris, Mathieu Mariolle is a comic book scriptwriter who has been immersed in classic Franco-Belgian comics such as Blueberry, The Incal and Les Passagers du Vent since his early childhood. After studying and working as a translator, in 2004 he wrote the script for Pixie, his first comic book, drawn by Aurore Demily and published by Delcourt. He then worked on a large number of series of very different styles and genres: the crime thriller Sang froid (Delcourt), the comic book adaptation of Foot 2 Rue (Soleil), the spin-off saga The World of Thorgal: Kriss of Valnor (Le Lombard), the eponymous works of the video artist Nota Bene (Soleil) specializing in historical popularization, and the historical thriller The Final Secret of Adolf Hitler (Humanoids). Mathieu Mariolle currently lives in Essonne.

Livia Pastore was born in Italy in 1988 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples and the Italian School of Comics "Comix" in 2010. She started to draw for the publishing house GG Studio during her studies, from 2009 to 2013. In 2010, she worked on the detective story project Nero Napoletano, published by the Italian newspaper Il Corriere. As a cover artist and illustrator for GG Studio, she created the fourth and final issue of the successful series Route des Maisons Rouges, the fifth book of Mediterranea and the first three books of Extinction Seed for the American market. She then took the lead on Big Dog Ink's Knightingail project, producing the third series, entitled "Dawn of Destiny". In the same years, she worked on Jabal Entertainment's graphic novel, Blades of Hope. In 2016, she began working for the Canadian publisher Red 5 Comics on the dark thriller Keyser Soze: Scorched Earth, a sequel to The Usual Suspects. In January 2021, she collaborated with Nicolas Mitric and Gihef on the third volume of the saga Sirens of the Norse Sea for Humanoids, an opportunity for her to draw her favorite characters, namely mermaids.