Patrice Mballa Asse is a young artist, illustrator and comics creator from Cameroon. Born on 05 August 1990 in Ebolowa, in the south of the country, he spent his childhood with his grandmother telling him little stories every evening. Passionate about reading from an early age, he read comics such as Zembla, Blek, Super Picsou, Kouakou. At the age of 10 he discovered his talent for drawing while scribbling with chalk on the cemented floor in the family house. Having obtained his baccalaureate in literature in 2009, he studied at the university of Yaoundé I, obtaining his degree in Fine Arts in 2013 to then enroll for a master’s degree. A very talented illustrator and writer, the young artist rose to fame on the national arts scene when his first comics album Zog and Mob was published in 2016, at the time of the Yaoundé international book fair, by Akoma Mba Editions. He is a member of the Cameroonian comic book group “Collectif A3” which — since 2010 — organises the Festival Mboa BD. Since 2017 he has participated in several international comic book workshops, and represented Cameroon at the Africomics Workshops organised by the Goethe-Institute in Ghana in 2022.