Jean-Christophe Menu is a cartoonist, an editor, a critic, but is best known as co-founder of the seminal alternative publishing house L'Association in 1990. Formed by Menu, Lewis Trondheim, David B., Mattt Konture, Patrice Killoffer, Stanislas Barthélémy & Frédéric "Mokeït" Van Linden, L'Association not only breathed new life into a moribund French comics culture, but has been credited with redefining the very medium of comics. And the combative ideologue Menu is often described as the primary driving force - to a certain extent, the captain who steered the ship.