Jean Dytar, born in 1980, developed his passion for comic books from a young age. He entered the Faculty of Plastic Arts in Saint-Étienne and, through an Erasmus exchange in Liège, attended evening cartoonist classes.

In his first album, Le Sourire des marionnettes, he transposes to the heart of 11th century Iran a reflection on religious determinism and human freedom and "tells the story of Omar Khayyâm, who never ceases to fight against alienation and the instrumentalization of religion". In 2014, he explores, in La vision de Bacchus, the world of the painters of the Venetian Renaissance.

In 2018, he tackles French and English colonial projects in North America at the time of the Wars of Religion in his third album, Florida, drawing the life of French cartographer and illustrator Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. The book is also inspired by the history of the engravings in the Théodore de Bry collection. The afterword is written by Franck Lestringant, professor of Renaissance literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and author of numerous works on the literature of the Wars of Religion and on expeditions to the New World.