Pierre Wininger, born in 1950, began working in comics in 1976. He published in Charlie Hebdo and Circus (“Victor Billetdoux”). In 1979, he created “The Bloody Garden” from a script by Henri Filippini for Pilote, later published as an album by Dargaud. He then produced “Nicéphore Vaucanson” for Okapi. From 1987 on, Wininger, who is also a children’s illustrator, devoted 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, and others.