Stephane Manel is a French illustrator born in 1971 who first gained attention in the Nineties for an art work made for a Serge Gainsbourg record sleeve. Since then he has created drawings for numerous magazines including Vogue, Elle, The New Yorker, Esquire, Vanity Fair and Liberation and continued to create imagery for the music industry. Amongst others his finely crafted works have been commissioned by Dimitri from Paris, Sebastien Tellier and Pacific for whom his work has also been animated.

His work has been exhibited internationally. Manel lives and works in Paris.