Roel Daenen (1974) studied history at Ghent University and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). He started his career as an audience developer at BOZAR, the Brussels Center for Fine Arts. At FARO, the Flemish institution for cultural heritage, Roel coordinates the communication and is also chief editor of the magazine faro. He wrote the book Het is maar om te lachen. Hoe cartoonisten de wereld veranderen for the publisher Polis, (‘It's just for laughter. How cartoonists are changing the world'), on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack. Finally, Roel is also editor-in-chief of the acclaimed literary magazine Stripgids, according to the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant “the most beautiful comics magazine of Europe”.