Pierre Boisserie is a prolific and versatile author, especially at ease with realist comics, thanks to his extensive general knowledge. He is best known for Dantès, a series he created with Philippe Guillaume. Philippe Guillaume is a financial journalist who also reports on comic books and writes scripts for them. Julien Maffre studied bandes dessinées in Angoulême. After The Bank, he teamed up with his own brother to create the unusual but critically acclaimed Western Stern.