Benoît Peeters is a French comics writer, novelist, and critic. His works include a series of novels, Les Cités Obscures (1983–present); an illustrated history of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and his creation The Adventures of Tintin, Le monde d'Hergé (1983); and biographies of the philosopher Jacques Derrida and the early comics artist Rodolphe Töpffer.Photograph: Georges Seguin