Simon-Pierre Mbumbo is a Cameroonian cartoonist and the  co-founder of the Association for Cameroon Cartoonists. In 1998, at the Libreville Festival in Gabon, he met Yves Poinot of the  Angoulême Festival and decided to study art and informatics in Angoulême. He has lived in France for ten years. In 2009, Malamine, un africain à Paris was recognized in the Blois Festival.