Beyond the Sea: Volume 0

Anaïs Flogny was born in Paris in 1999. Five years later, her family moved to the north of France and, very early on, Anaïs became interested in the comics medium. She began making her own artbooks and fanzines, either as independent projects or group books for conventions such as Harajuku and Paris City Pop. She moved to Nantes to pursue her studies, earning her diploma in 2021 and taking on freelance projects for various publishers. Anaïs's work is inspired by artists like René Gruau, Austin Briggs, Kamome Shirahama, and Cyril Pedrosa, but her ideas come from a variety of realms: music (Georges Brassens), novels (Pierre Lemaître, Tonino Benacquista) and the graphic world of the 1950s. "Rivages lointains"/"Beyond the Sea" (Dargaud/Europe Comics 2024) is her first graphic novel.