Sylvain Rivaud is a comic book artist from Paris, who works under the pen name Lepithec. He studied at the European School of Visual Arts in Poitiers, where he dabbled in animation. He was a member of the Babylon Studio collective, where he created two books of the children's comic 'José Lapin' for Éditions EP with Messina in 2008 and 2011. With his studio colleague Clément Bacaria, he then created 'Peter & Sally', a humorous children's series that is published by Sarbacane from 2012.
