Born in Bangkok in 1964, Stephff (Stephane Peray) began his career as a press photographer in the Far East. Since 1998 he has been drawing cartoons for several magazines in Asia, including the Far Eastern Economic Review and Asiaweek. And since 2006 his cartoons in The Nation have been reprinted by a score of dailies the world over, e.g. the Kuwait Times, NRC Handelsblad, Der Standard and the International Herald Tribune.