João Fazenda was born in 1979, in Lisbon. He graduated in Fine-Arts at the University of Lisbon. His work is divided between illustration, animation, comics, painting and drawing. He directed the animation shorts "Café" with Alex Gozblau, "Something Important" and " Unintended" with scripts by JP Cotrim, the latter having won the António Gaio Prize at Cinanima in 2011. He works regularly as an illustrator for publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vision, among others. He participated in several collective and individual exhibitions around the world, is an illustration professor at FBAUL and has received numerous national and international awards. He illustrated many children’s books, poetry books, plays, movie posters and record covers.