Born in 1976 in Angers, France, and better known as Aurel, Aurélien Froment is an award-winning French cartoonist and editorial journalist. He completed his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2000 and qualified as a film projectionist in the same year. Since 2007, he has been filing illustrated reports for the French daily Le Monde, while authoring graphic novels about jazz and international politics. His works have appeared at the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. Josep marks Aurel’s feature debut.