The Creative Team
Lea Kantor
Stories are my superpower
The creator and writer behind the Techno-Comics series. An experienced editor and storyteller, she knows how to take complex ideas and turn them into stories kids can’t put down, with stories that speak to children at eye level, without ever compromising on quality.
Over the years, Lea has created and led a wide range of children’s books, magazines, and educational content, always drawn to the challenge of making big ideas feel simple, human, and exciting.
Her work in journalism and editorial projects – including leading a national innovation magazine, which opened up a fascinating world of technology, creativity, and invention.
That’s where the idea for Techno-Comics was born: a series she conceived to introduce children to topics like
microchips, artificial intelligence, and robots, not as a lesson, but as a smart, funny, suspenseful story. One that parents and grandparents might enjoy learning from too. Every Techno-Comics book reflects Lea’s belief that curiosity is a skill worth training. That’s why each story includes trivia and playful challenges, adding a small twist beyond the plot itself that turns reading into an active, curious experience.
Why comics? Because one eight-year-old girl once said: “If it’s a comic book, I’ll happily read it even if it’s about soccer.” Lea took that seriously. She wanted to create stories that would invite girls in just as much as boys – and make technology feel like a world they belong to.
Sari Itzhak
Sees every detail, builds the big picture
Leads the visual production of the Techno-Comics series. Her role isn’t to “design” images, but to shape, direct, refine, and take full responsibility for how the visual world of the books comes together.
With years of experience producing content under tight schedules and clear constraints, Techno-Comics was a different kind of project: an open creative process focused on color, movement, composition, rhythm, facial expression, and visual clarity – always with close attention to both the smallest details and the overall picture.During production, the team used artificial intelligence tools as part of the visual workflow. For Sari, this meant treating AI the way a photographer treats a camera: as a tool, not a creator.
The images were developed through careful prompting, selection, editing, and transformation, where every visual choice shaped, refined, and approved by human judgment.
Turning AI-generated material into a coherent, original visual language required intensive curation, iteration, and creative control. The final visuals are not “raw outputs,” but the result of a deliberate production process that makes the work distinctly theirs and fully owned.
For Sari, producing a comic means deeply understanding the characters and the story they inhabit. Every scene must be clear, alive, and engaging, while still serving the narrative without relying on excess text. The challenge – and the excitement – is turning an abstract idea into a visual world children can step into and feel part of.
Our Comic
Adventure
Every time we travel abroad, we find ourselves in bookstores. Drawn to crowded shelves, the smell of paper, and the quiet thrill of discovering that books are still very much alive, even in a world that once promised everything would go digital.
On one work trip, we wandered into an unforgettable comic shop in Florence, filled with shelf after shelf of comics in Italian. We didn’t understand a word – but we bought one book for inspiration and then forgot about it for years.
Until we started searching for a way to turn an idea into a series that would make science and technology feel accessible, human, and fun for children. The comic format suddenly made perfect sense – with characters kids could connect with and stories that could carry big ideas lightly.
Publishing two books at the same time was its own adventure. Along the way, we were lucky to work with a brilliant team: Dani, the lead designer of the series; Vicky, who handles visual adaptations for additional languages; and our editors in Hebrew and other languages.
And the next books? Already in the works. With new ideas and new visual challenges that turn every book into an adventure – for us too.
We hope you and your children enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed creating them.
