Frédéric Stehr

Born the sixth of seven children in 1956, Frédéric Stehr briefly attended the silk-screen printing section of the Ecole Professionnelle Supérieure des Arts Graphiques in Paris.
He preferred public gardens to pencil for hours on end and also abandoned the Fine Arts in favor of various odd jobs to earn a living.
It was during a temporary assignment at the Ecole des loisirs, which was to become his publishing house, that his desire to draw and tell stories in images was confirmed: "I learned to tell stories alongside Arthur Hubschmid and Marcus Osterwalder.
His first album, Je n'ai pas faim, appeared in 1983. Since then, he has published about sixty albums, including the Foufours series with his brother Gérald Stehr, the Calinours series with Alain Broutin, and the Mariette and Soupir series written by Irène Schwartz.