Ileana Surducan is a Romanian artist who works as a freelancer in the fields of illustration, comics, and ceramics. She enjoys telling stories where fantasy mixes into everyday life, and believes that art is a game in which a touch of humor is indispensable?after all, people need the courage to not take themselves too seriously. She has been publishing picture books, graphic novels, and comic anthologies for over ten years in Romania, France, Sweden, and Germany. She enjoys creating stories with multiple levels of meaning that can be enjoyed both by adults and children, thus becoming timeless and universal.