Alain Pilon lives and works in Montreal. He is a regular contributor to numerous American, French and Canadian publications, such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair France, The World Magazine and The Walrus. In 2016, he published Heroes for the Earth with texts by Isabelle Collombat, at Actes Sud Junior, and Letters to my dear grandfather who is no longer in this world with texts by Frédéric Kessler, at Grasset-Jeunesse . When he is not at his drawing table, he hangs out at Underdog boxing club in Montreal.