Luca Renaud is a French comics writer and illustrator based in Cambridge, UK. Born in Lyon in 1986, Luca studied sequential art at École Émile Cohl before cutting their teeth in small-press anthologies and festival residencies across Europe. A bilingual storyteller with a penchant for quiet landscapes and noisy machines, Luca blends folklore, near-future tech, and working-class banter into character-driven adventures.
Notable works include Brass Orchard (2013), the diesel-romance mini-series Copper Zephyr (2016–2017), and the signal-haunted graphic novella Hinterland Frequencies (2020). Luca received the Prix Graphite for emerging creators in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Nova Sequential Prize in 2021. Their illustration and design work has appeared in music packaging, museum exhibits, and indie game splash art.
Since relocating to East Anglia in 2021, Luca has sketched airfields, fenland drains, and cathedral stone by day, and restored wheezing shortwave radios by night. They live with a letterer, a whippet, and a rotating colony of mechanical pencils, and teach occasional workshops on visual rhythm and page architecture.
