Marko Stojanović, comic book writer and critic, was born on May 17th 1978 in Leskovac, Serbia. For twenty-four years he has been an active comic book artist as well as translator, adapting series like Hellboy, Hardboiled, Raptors and Sky Doll for Serbian readers. During this time he had written multiple projects in Serbia, including Max Debris, Crne duše (Dark Souls), Postelja od gloga (The Hawthorn Bed), Rekvijem (Requiem), Pasiji životi (A Dog’s Life), Prah (Ashes), Pepeo (Dust), Bajka i druge istine (The Fairy Tale and Other Truths), Mrtva straža (The Dead Guard), Duhovi u boci (Spirits in the Bottle), Čudovišta (Monsters), Zla krv (Bad blood), Na kraju krajeva (In the End), Kainov soj (Cain’s Breed), Zemlja čuda (Wonderland), Treći čin (The Third Act) as well as the long-running series Vekovnici (Ageless) and its spin-off Beskrvni (Bloodless). His latest comic book album in Serbia was Do pakla i nazad (To Hell and Back), which he wrote and edited as a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI. 

Stojanović’s works were also published in France, with series such as Le Dico des Hommes, Le Dico des Femmes, Les 69 secrets à savoir sur les Femmes, Les 69 secrets à savoir sur les Hommes, Savoir biens'yprendre pour tout obtenir de lui! and Savoir biens'y prendre pour tout obtenir d'elle! under the banner of the Septieme Choc publishing house, the French adaptation of Max Debris in 2015 under the title MAX DEBRIS Confession d'un véritable faussaire published by Yil, and his latest project La Croix Sanglante in 2019  under Delcourt (with artists Dražen Kovačević and Dan Ianos and colorist Desimir Miljić). He was also included in US Shock anthology volumes 1 and 2 from US publisher Aftershock.

His texts and short comics were published in multiple magazines in Serbia and abroad, including Politika, Književna reč, Politikin Zabavnik, Vilajet, Gradina, Naš trag, Pressing, Gradac, Pressing Movie, Arsenal, Treš, Pressek, Pomak, Bager, Eon, Beogradski književni časopis, Panorama, Đački zabavnik, Strip Pressing, Naša reč, Nova naša reč, Pravnik, Bumerang, Vitez, Ennea, Akt, Stripoteka (Serbia) Strip Kreator (North Macedonia), Barske novine (Montenegro), Strip revija, Strip revija Večenjeg lista, Stripos (Croatia),Parabellum, Ježurak (Bosnia and Herzegovina), BDC (Romania), Balkan Comics Connections (UK), Dentistpro (France), ARRRGH (Czech Republic), and GAS3K (Uruguay). He is the acting editor-in-chief of the Niš-based magazine Strip Pressing. Some of his stories were published in the Leskovac short story anthology Velike priče malog Mančestera (The Big Stories of Little Manchester).

Stojanović is the author of two essay collections on the topic of comics.These are Južnjačka uteha (Southern Comfort, 2009) and Stripovanje (Comixing, 2018), published by the Cultural center of Niš. He was the editor-in-chief of several monographs on comics including Leskovački strip 1950-2010 (Comics in Leskovac between 1950-2010), Zaječarski strip (Comics of Zaječar), 20 godina leskovačke škole stripa (20 Years of the Comics School in Leskovac), 15 godina Strip Pressinga (15 Years of Strip Pressing) as well as an editor of a few graphic novels and comic albums of other prominent Serbian comic book artists. As an publisher himself, he initiated the Leskovački strip (Leskovac comics) edition which focuses on historical and prominent comic book authors from his hometown. 

Since 1995, Stojanović has been the head teacher of the Leskovac Comics School Nikola Mitrović Kokan. Thanks to his efforts, hundreds of students from Leskovac and the region went on to become award-winning comic book artists, illustrators, writers, animators and concept designers. Within this school in 1998 he created the Balkan Festival of Young Comics Creators, the oldest and biggest comic book festival to come from any of the countries of former Yugoslavia.  

Stojanović has won multiple awards for his work in the field of comics. These include the Politikin Zabavnik award, the Sixth International Comics Festival plaques for the best script and the best traditional style comic (Belgrade, Serbia), three Grand Prix awards from the International Comics Showroom (Veles, North Macedonia), the Grand Prix of the Ninth International Comics Festival (Belgrade, Serbia), the Pobednik award (Kragujevac, Serbia), five Stripoteka awards, three Nikola Mitrović Kokan memorial plaques at the Balkan Festival of Young Comics Creators, two of which for the best young scriptwriter and one for the best comic book theoretician, the life time award for his contribution to Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian comics, the Ambassador of Bulgarian Comics Abroad award, and three October Certificates of Merit and one October Medal of the city of Leskovac.

Stojanović is married and has one child. He currently resides in Leskovac where he teaches English language at the Josif Kostić elementary school. 

Milorad Vicanovic Maza was born in Banja Luka (former Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 1965. He lives in Laktasi, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has started drawing comics in the beginning of the 80s, and he published his first work in 1985. Up until 2006, he did mostly short comics and illustrations for books and magazines published in the former Yugoslavia. In 2006, the he started work on albums "Prah" & "Pepeo" for the series "Vekovnici", which were then released in Serbia in 2007 and 2008. Before the start of his work for Soleil, he has done the first part of the western album "Divlji Vetar", which was published by the Association of comic writers and fans of the comics of the Republic of Srpska in the series in the magazine "Parabellum". In 2010 he started working on the Triangle Rose for Quadrants Soleil. At the end of the same year, he began to work on the Wunderwaffen series, which has now been published 14 albums for Soleil. Bibliography; Vekovnici Prah (2007), Written by Marko Stojanovic, System Comics. Vekovnici Pepeo (2008),Written by Marko Stojanovic, System Comics, Divlji vetar (2009) Written by R. Radovanovic. Triangle rose, (2011) Written by Michel Duffrane, Quadrants Soleil. Wunderwaffen 1-14 (2012-2018), Written by Richard D. Nolane, Soleil. Lady Spitfire, 1-4 (2012-2014) Written by Sebastien Latour, Delcourt.Jour J 14, 18, 21 (2013 - 2015), Written by Jean Pierre Pecau, Delcourt. USA uber alles, 1-3 (2014 - 2016), Written by Jean Pierre Pecau, Delcourt. Luftballons 1-3, (2017-2018), Written by Jean Pierre Pecau, Delcourt. Space Reich, 1-3 Storyboards (2015-2018), Written by Richard D. Nolane, Soleil. He is the organizer of comcis festival Strip Salon Laktasi, which has been held since 2008 in his home town where he lives and which is also the first international festival of comics in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His life motto is Not a day without a line (Nulla dies sine linea).