* 1979 in Călăraşi / Romania. Art prepara­to­ry school in Constanța, stud­ied graph­ic arts in Iaşi. His inspi­ra­tion includes Egon Schiele, Fernando Botero, Moebius and Livia Rusz, among oth­ers.  Comics have fas­ci­nat­ed him since child­hood, and of course he read Pif. His comics reper­toire con­sists of clas­sic comics for chil­dren as well as graph­i­cal­ly exper­i­men­tal comics that are in part auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal. He has shown his work in Europe and the US, and his pub­li­ca­tions are dis­trib­uted inter­na­tion­al­ly. His Pisic apat rata came out in 2010, the first album on street art in Romania. He found­ed the Comics Museum and has curat­ed mul­ti­ple exhibits. He lives and works as a free­lance illus­tra­tor in Bucharest.