A graphic designer by day – because one must eat to live, even if one shouldn’t live to eat – Jean-Claude Aumais becomes the comic book author Blonk come nightfall, drinking cups of Indian ink as others guzzle cups of coffee, so that he might indulge unreservedly in his secret vice: the ninth art. The fact is, ever since he learnt at the age of ten that it is humans who create comic books through the sweat of their brow, and not highly sophisticated steam engines, Blonk has devoted his life to this cherished passion. 23:72 is his very first book, Poisson à pattes is his second, the next will be his third. And so on.