Dimitrie Sbiera

✰ January 17, 1937, Suceava, România ✞ 2004, Paris, France Romanian graphician emigrated in 1977 to France, settled in Paris. Graduated Institute of Architecture, Bucharest. Was married from 1979 with Draga Paleolog (born 1951) and had a daughter Anna Mélanie (born 1980) and a son, Luca (born april 1984). Had already gained a certain notority in his home country as a set designer for film and theater, before settling in Paris in 1977. He found employment as an illustrator with Éditions Vaillant and was for many years the regular illustrator of the gadget construction guides for magazine Pif Gadget. His passion for comics was regularly visible in his commercial artwork. In 1995 he and writer Antoine Piwnik made a comic book called 'Les Braconniers' for Ford.