Alain Auderset (born October 27, 1968 in Grenchen, Switzerland) is a Swiss Christian author of comic books. He lives in Saint-Imier with his wife Eliane and their four children. He also takes part in Saahsal, a band where he is guitarist and his wife the singer. By reading Tournesol as a child he was converted to Christianity. Later, passionate for drawing, he studied graphic arts and began to draw comic strips. In 2001 he published his first book Conventional Wisdom. This first one was followed by Marcel (2004), Robi (2005), Conventional Wisdom II (2006) and Willy Grunch (2008). Nowadays, he is auto-edited and has sold more than 80,000 books.His first comic book, Conventional Wisdom, was translated into six languages: German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Danish.