Ted Benoit, born Thierry Benoît (Niort, 1949 - Paris, 2016), was a French cartoonist, best known for his ligne claire art style. Benoit studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques ('Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies') in Paris and started his working career as a television assistant director. His early comics have been published in a number of French magazines, such as Geranonymo, Métal hurlant, L'Écho des savanes, Libération and (À suivre). Benoit's first comic album Hôpital received the best script award at the Angoulême comics festival in 1979. Among his other works are vers la Ligne Claire (1981), Bingo Bongo et son Combo Congolais (1987) and the three tomes of the noir pastiche series Ray Banana (1982, 1986, 2014). He also illustrated two volumes of the famous French comic series Blake et Mortimer by Jean Van Hamme.