Vojtěch Mašek is the author and illustrator of a dozen graphic novels, including 'Elephants in Marienbad', 'Look for Doc. Woman in Everything', 'Pandemonium', 'St. Barbora', 'Sisters Dietl',' The Dragon Never Sleeps', and more. Most of these were awarded the Muriel Prize of the Czech comic festival KomiksFEST! for best story or best graphic novel. He has also written three plays and many screenplays, for which he was nominated by the Oscars for a Student Academy Award and awarded a Crystal Globe for Best feature film in the 52nd International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary.
Chrudoš Valoušek is a unique Czech illustrator, specializing in lynocuts. His book 'Mix Přísloví' won the prize of the Most beautiful book in the world in 2010 in Leipzig. He used to work as a night watchman, now he lives in Prague and works in National Gallery.
With slight exaggeration it could be said that whatever discipline Vojtěch Mašek (* 1977) turns his hand to, his work always meets with incredible success: he was one of the screenwriters on the film 'The Little Crusader, which won best film at the festival in Karlovy Vary, while the children’s book 'Puppet, Plum Pit, Plum, Plank and Back to Puppet', story by Mašek and art by Chrudoš Valoušek, won the prestigious Bologna Ragazzi Award. However, he is most at home in the world of comics, which he creates either on his own or in partnership with other artists and writers. Since 2002, he and Džian Baban have been developing the surreally farcical world of 'Fred Brunold’s Monster Cabaret', which has appeared in five comic books, more than a dozen stage adaptations and in short films. They have also written two award-winning graphic novels with art by Jiří Grus. He also recently worked with the writer Marek Šindelka on the contemporary graphic novel 'Saint Barbara, 'art by Marek Pokorný, 2018), and his list of projects continues to grow.
