Maximilien Le Roy was born in Paris in 1985. In addition to Les Chemins de traverse, his work about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict includes the collective work Gaza, un pavé dans la mer; Faire le Mur; Dans la nuit la liberté nous écoute... and Palestine, dans quel état? In October 2014, when he attempted to attend a comic book festival in Tel Aviv, he was refused entry and barred from Israel for ten years because of his work.
