Stephan Franck is a Franco-American animator, writer, director, and comics creator.

In 2013, he received an Annie Award nomination for Best Director for a direct to video or TV broadcast for The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow.

[9] In 2014, Franck was nominated for the Russ Manning Award[10] for the first volume of the graphic novel series Silver which he writes and illustrates.

[11][12][13] In 2017, it was announced that writer Andrew Cosby was attached to write a movie adaptation of the Silver series.

[14] In 2022, the publishing of Silver moved from Dark Planet [15] to Abrams Books's ComicArts Imprint.