Jul Maroh (formerly Julie Maroh) is a French writer and illustrator of graphic novels born in Lens, northern France in 1985. Maroh is openly transgender and nonbinary.
After obtaining an applied arts baccalauréat at the École supérieure des arts appliqués et du textile (E.S.A.A.T.) in Roubaix, they continued their studies in Brussels, where they lived for eight years. They got two diplomas there, in Visual Arts (comics option) in the École supérieure des arts Saint-Luc and in Lithography/Engraving at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Brussels.
They started writing Le bleu est une couleur chaude (Blue Is the Warmest Color) when they were 19 and it took them five years to complete it. It's a story about the life and love of two young lesbians that was adapted by Abdelatif Kechiche into the film La Vie d'Adèle (Blue Is the Warmest Colour).
In June 2020, DC Comics published You Brought Me the Ocean, a graphic novel based on the character Aqualad, authored by Alex Sanchez and illustrated by Jul Maroh.
