André-Philippe Côté is a comic artist, illustrator and cartoonist. His first strips appeared in 1973 in the fanzines Patrimoine and Plouf. In 1982, he won the first Prix Solaris for Elle se livre, and in 1984, the Prix Boréal for La voix dans le désert. In 1987, he joined Safarir magazine as an illustrator, creating his character Baptiste le clochard. The eponymous album won the Prix Bédéis Causa in 1991. In 1997, Côté became senior cartoonist at Le Soleil newspaper in Quebec City, and since then, annual collections of his best cartoons have been published under the title De tous les... Côtés. His cartoons are often reproduced in Courrier International and Le Monde. In 1993, Côté published Castello, a surrealist album directly inspired by the works of Picasso and painter Giorgio di Chirico. Victor et Rivière followed in 2005, this time inspired by the lives and works of poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, earning him the Prix Bedeis Causa at the 12th edition of the Festival de la bande dessinée francophone de Québec. In 2011, Éditions Moelle graphique published L'homme aux graffitis, his first full-length youth work, a wordless work strongly inspired by surrealism. AMA is directly in line with these first three opuses, which explore the vision of art held by this great comics artist.