Pierre Wininger, born in 1950, started in comics in 1976. He published in Charlie Hebdo and Circus ("Victor Billetdoux"). In 1979, he created "Le Jardin Sanglant" based on a story by Henri Filippini for Pilote, then in album form at Dargaud. He then created "Nicéphore Vaucanson" for Okapi.
From 1987, Wininger, who is also a children's illustrator, dedicated himself to adapting numerous novels for "Je Bouquine". He illustrated novels by Oscar Wilde, Conan Doyle, Calvino, Carroll, Balzac, Faulkner, Shelley, Stevenson, Saint-Exupéry, Du Maurier, Charlotte Brontë, etc.