Ilan Manouach (born July 11, 1980, in Athens) is an artist with a specific interest in conceptual and post-digital-comics[1] and is also active as a music performer, composer and book publisher,[2] He has produced commissions for newspapers such as The New York Times and Internazionale.

His work has been described as covering a range of different experimentation within the tradition of comics, from narratives, to rip-offs and appropriations and recently to the invention of a new language, Shapereader.

His storytelling is entirely built as a succession of drone sounds, melodic lines, disjunctions, syncopations and improvisations and variations around a main theme[14] ».

His books have received support on different occasions from the fr:Centre National du Livre in France and the French Community of Belgium.

The book was printed in November 2011 and it was seen in public for the first time in January 2012 during the Angoulême International Comics Festival that ran under Spiegelman’s presidency.

Shapereader consists of a repertoire of anaglyph shapes called tactigrams designed to provide haptic equivalents for objects, actions, affections and characters.