Born 1963 in Paris, France Jean-Claude Götting grew up on a diet of comic books and wanted to make them himself. Exploring a wide range of graphic techniques, he studied at the Arts Appliqués Duperré and signed his first pages in the fanzine PLGPPUR. In1985, he published Creve-cœur with Futuropolis. The Angoulême Festival awarded this aesthetic bomb the prize for Best First Album. Götting revolutionized black and white creation. He enriched the ink with gouache and used a foam roller to play with the light in the drawing, creating relief and atmosphere. This kind of enchantment became one of the hallmarks of the avant-garde of French 9th Art, with titles of formidable graphic power. Détours, La Serviette Noire, La fille du Modèle and L'option Stravinsky. Götting then moved into press illustration, painting, and novel covers, where he did not hesitate to use bright colors which became a trademark of the French artist. He illustrated for such newspapers and magazines as The New Yorker, New York Times, Libération, Vanity Fair, Jazzman, Lire and Le Nouvel Observateur, to name a few. He also occasionally worked for advertising agencies and did campaigns for Chanel, Hermès or Piper-Heidsieck. The French artist also shares in the glory of Harry Potter as he became the cover artist for the edition of JK Rowling's cult novels. From 1987 on, he has exhibited his paintings in Paris, Geneva, Milan, Barcelona, Dusseldorf, before making a dramatic return to comics in 2004 with La Malle Sanderson, published by Delcourt, which immediately won awards in Geneva and Monaco. Happy Living was published 3 years later. A scriptwriter for his own comics, Götting also writes for the cartoonist Jacques de Loustal Pigalle 62-27 (2012) and Black Dog (2016). In 2017, he directed "Tapas Nocturnes", his first animated short film. This disciplined creator and pioneer of boxed impressionism excels in portraits of women. Dominated by red or blue, his models exude a melancholic beauty, full of elegance and sensitivity. With his black line, he defines graceful curves and blends soft colors to enclose spaces with invisible contours, giving relief and substance to the scenery that surrounds his figures. His research on canvas also leads him to explore landscapes that are always fictional and close to reality, where nature often reclaims its rights in unusual perspectives with human activity.