André Breinbauer studied graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. Since 2005, he has lived in Vienna as a freelance illustrator and comics artist. When he was a child, the television series Traveling with Odysseus fascinated him and quickened a life-long interest in Greek mythology, an interest palpable on every page of Medusa and Perseus. With this title, he was a finalist in the 2021 comic-book prize awarded by the Berthold Leibinger Foundation.