JESÚS COSSÍO GUEVARA is a Peruvian illustrator, author, and editor of comic books and graphic novels. He has published numerous books and zines, including El cerdo volador, Pánico, Juventud moderna, and Ciudades convertidas en selvas. In 2003, Cossio was awarded a Rockfeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities, which he used, in part, to complete the graphic novel Rupay: Historias gráficas sobre la violencia política 1980–1984 and its subsequent volume Barbarie: Cómics sobre la violencia política 1985–1990.
