Nicolas Grivel

CEO and founder of Nicolas Grivel Agency | France

Born and raised in North Eastern France, Nicolas Grivel is a literary agent (Nicolas Grivel Agency). He began his publishing career in 2003 as a senior editor for Pika (publisher of manga - Hachette France). He now owns an agency specialized in the sale of rights (paper, digital and media) of bande dessinée, comics, graphic novels in creation and in translation around the world. He is working with Edo Brenes (Costa Rica), Ernesto Saade (San Salvador), Leo Trinidad (Costa Rica), Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (South Korea), Dylan Horrocks (New Zealand), Golo Zhao (China)...

The goal of Nicolas Grivel Agency is to represent and to push demanding works which make the readers think. Nicolas is casting a wide net for all kinds of graphic stories. He was also scouting comics and artists for the American studio Laika as well and he’s teaching classes in four French Universities (Nancy, Strasbourg, Grenoble and Poitiers) and doing lectures in various universities as CESAN in Paris, Parsons - New School in New York, CCS in Vermont, Viborg - The Animation Workshop in Denmark, Beijing Film Academy, Scuola Italiana di Comix in Naples, INBA in Morocco and was teaching a semester in Jilin Animation Institute in China in 2026. He lives between Vosges and Paris and likes to travel and his Croatian cat: Billy.