Pascal Girard was born in Jonquiere, QC, in 1981. He is a part-time cartoonist and part-time social worker. He is the award-winning author several of graphic novels, including Pastimes,Rebecca and Lucie in the Case of the Missing Neighbor, Nicolas, Petty Theft, and others. He lives in Montreal with his family. Aleshia Jensen is a French-to-English literary translator and former bookseller living in Tiohti:ke/Montreal. Her translations include Explosions by Mathieu Poulin, a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for translation; Prague by Maude Veilleux, co-translated with Aimee Wall; as well as numerous graphic novels including This is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle, The Great Beyond by Lea Murawiec, and many others. She is also the co-founder of Writers Bloc, a community of translators centered around continued learning and knowledge exchange.
""Pow Pow's new collection of cartoonists' notebooks is a marvel of ideas, and Pascal Girard's tone is perfect."" —Anthony Lacroix, Les Libraires ""The brilliant Pascal Girard has struck again [with] a collection of comic strips about everyday life, fatherhood, and his day job as a social worker [that's full of] embarrassment, missteps, and clumsiness."" —Annick Lavogiez, Page by Page