Elma, A Bear's Life - Volume 1 - The Great Journey

Ingrid Chabbert was born in 1978 in southern France. She has written stories ever since she was a child, and playing with words to explain life to young readers has become her passion. Her first children's book was published in 2010, and since then she has written nearly a hundred books. Over the past several years she has increasingly turned toward comics, with her most recent work including "Elma, une vie d'ours" (Dargaud; "Elma - A Bear's Life, " Europe Comics), alongside artist Léa Mazé. Léa Mazé grew up in Brittany, France, and studied animation at the Ecole Estienne in Paris.
Then, almost by accident, she came across a course on comics. There, as she says, she "fell in love, finding in comics a childhood pleasure." She decided to continue down that path, obtaining a degree in illustration. Her first complete work was "Nora" in 2015 (published by La Gouttière), followed by "Elma, une vie d'ours" (Dargaud; "Elma - A Bear's Life, " Europe Comics), alongside Ingrid Chabbert, marking her as an up-and-coming comics artist.