Frédéric Boilet is a French cartoonist and a mangaka who was born in in Épinal, France on January 16th, 1960. Boilet is a rare example of a western comics artist who has had some degree of success in the Japanese market. He started doing work for manga magazine anothologies in the 1990s. He is essentially the founder of the La nouvelle manga movement, which seeks to combine Franco-Belgian attributes with daily life Manga.
