Anne Simon (comics) explained

Anne Simon (born 1980) is a French bande dessinée author and illustrator. In 2004, she received the Young Talent prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.[1]

Biography

Anne Simon was born on 21 July 1980, in La Crèche, Deux-Sèvres, France.[2]

She studied fine arts at the École supérieure de l'image in Angoulême and decorative arts at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris.[3] She participated in the creation of the magazine Dopututto and the Misma Editions where she developed her series Les Contes du Marylène, which includes La Geste d'Aglaé, Cixitite Impératrice, and Boris l'Enfant Patate.[4]

She published her first comic strip, Perséphone aux enfers (Persephone in the Underworld)[5] (Michel Lagarde) in 2006. She published three illustrated graphic biographies at Dargaud: Freud, Marx, and Einstein in collaboration with the screenwriter Corinne Maier. Simon also works as an illustrator for the press and children's publishing. In 2020, volume 4 of Gousse & Gigot was published and the album was selected for the 2021 Angoulême International Comics Festival.[6]

Awards and honours

Selected works

Comic book albums

Illustrator

Notes and References

  1. fr. L'univers tout en bulles d'Anne Simon . The bubble-filled universe of Anne Simon. La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest. 26 June 2007.
  2. Web site: Anne Simon . Babelio . 10 September 2024 . fr.
  3. Web site: Anne Simon . Europe Comics . 10 September 2024.
  4. Web site: Anne Simon nous emmène au pays Marylène . Anne Simon takes us to Marylène country . France Culture . 10 September 2024 . fr . 8 March 2020.
  5. Web site: Anne Simon . Nobrow Press . 10 September 2024.
  6. News: Oury . Antoine . BD : les sélections officielles du FIBD 2021 dévoilées . Comics: the official selections of the 2021 FIBD revealed . 10 September 2024 . ActuaLitté.com . fr-FR.