Thierry BellefroidThierry Bellefroid works for the Belgian television company, RTB, where he presents every week Sous Couverture, the RTBF literary magazine which he created after setting up, directing and presenting Mille-Feuilles from 2004 to June 2011, then ivrés à Domicile from 2011 to 2019. He has been the anchor of RTBF's Le Journal 13H00 for six years. Since September 2009 he has focused solely on book and comic book news. From 2007 to 2020, Thierry Bellefroid was also a guest lecturer at the School of Journalism of Louvain at UCLouvain, where he taught television journalism there in Master 1, mentoring journalism students in comics reporting. He has published three novels, a collection of short stories and a digital novel. Amongst many things, he has been a member of numerous comics juries (International Prize of the City of Geneva and Töpffer Prize from 2001 to 2020, Grand Jury of Angoulême in 2000, president of the Jury of the Quinzaine de la BD de Bruxelles in 2004 and 2005, member of the jury of the Algiers International Comic Strip Festival in 2011 and 2012); he has been a member of Groupe d'Experts sur la Bande Dessinée pour la Communauté Française de Belgique since its creation in 2001 and a commissioner for the Commission for Aid to Comics of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation of Belgium, which is the equivalent of the French CNL, until 2015; he coordinated comic strip animations for eight years for the Brussels Book Fair; and has participated in the catalogs of many comics exhibitions including CGRI (now WBI) in Seoul, Santiago, Bologna, etc., the exhibitions of several editions of the Lausanne BD-FIL Festival, the exhibition Archi et BD curated by Jean-Marc Thévenet at the Cité de l'Architecture in Paris, and the Le Temps des Cités exhibition in Brussels from February to April 2013.