Gisèle Lagacé Explained

Birth Date:1970 6, mf=yes
Birth Place:New Brunswick, Canada
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Notable Works:Ménage à 3
Penny & Aggie
Eerie Cuties
Magick Chicks
Cool Cat Studio
Archie
Collaborators:David Lumsdon
Awards:2001 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards - Best Art
2002 Kimberly Yale Award - Best New Talent
2018 Joe Shuster Award - Webcomics Creator
Website:http://giselelagace.wix.com/giselelagace

Gisèle Lagacé (born June 16, 1970, in New Brunswick, Canada) is a Canadian comics writer and artist, writer and illustrator of webcomics.[1] She is best known for her series Ménage à 3.[2]

Biography

She was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, Canada, and presently lives there. She attended high school at l'ESN in Bathurst, New Brunswick, and studied visual arts for a year at Université de Moncton before graduating in graphic design from La Cité collégiale in Ottawa.[1]

She was a bassist for the Quebec all-female band Barbarella in the early 1990s, then worked as a graphic designer for Avenue Design Group in Ottawa laying out advertisements and designing logos.[1]

Works

In 2000, she wrote and illustrated the webcomic Cool Cat Studio which quickly became popular in 2001 and won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for best art.[3] That led to the 2002 co-winning of the Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent.[4]

Cool Cat went on hiatus at the end of 2001 and returned in 2007 with co-writer T Campbell to conclude in late 2008.

From 2004 to 2009, she worked with writer T Campbell to co-create the Penny and Aggie series about the rivalry of two girls and their friends. Lagacé was nominated in the 2007 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for Outstanding Romantic Comic.[5]

In 2008, she created with writer David Lumsdon[6] the series strip Ménage à 3 (meaning "threesome" or "love triangle") which tells the story of Gary, a thirtyish Montrealer, and friends. The strip is consistently in the top 50 rated webcomics and ongoing . Lagacé was also nominated for the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Webcomics Creator. Lagacé was invited to the 2008 Anime Festival in Montreal.[7] In 2018, Ménage à 3 won the Joe Shuster Award for "Webcomics Creator".[8]

In 2009, she created the series Eerie Cuties which tells the story of high school monsters. David Lumsdon later joined as co-writer.[9]

In January 2013, she created a spinoff of Ménage à 3, called Sticky Dilly Buns, which tells the story of Dillon, a gay actor.

Lagacé has penciled some Archie Comics, including #635, #636, #639, and #646.[1] She illustrated the Ramones-themed one-shot, Archie Meets Ramones, in 2016.[10]

She drew a Betty Boop mini series for Dynamite Entertainment in 2016,[11] and issues #24-26 of Jem and the Holograms from IDW Publishing.[12] [13] [14] She illustrated the covers of the Marvel Comics series Unbelievable Gwenpool for issues #12 and #13 from February to March 2015, and is the artist of Exorsisters, an ongoing series from Image Comics written by Ian Boothby.[15]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gisèle Lagacé Comic Artist: About me. Gisèle Lagacé. March 10, 2015. March 10, 2015.
  2. Web site: Gisèle Lagacé.
  3. Web site: 2001 Winners and Nominees. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091231152414/http://www.ccawards.com/2001.htm. 2009-12-31.
  4. Web site: The Lulu Award Winners 1997-2008. 2008. Friends of Lulu. https://web.archive.org/web/20090207213047/http://www.friends-lulu.org/awards.php. February 7, 2009.
  5. Web site: The 2007 Cartoonist's Choice Awards. 2015-03-10. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100204090116/http://ccawards.com/2007.htm. 2010-02-04.
  6. Web site: About Pixie Trix Comix. 2015-03-10.
  7. Web site: Invités Webcomic. 2015-03-10.
  8. Web site: Boyd. Kevin A.. The 2018 Joe Shuster Award Winners. joeshusterawards.com. 2018-09-05.
  9. Web site: About Eerie Cuties. 2015-03-10.
  10. Web site: Comic Book Review – Archie Meets Ramones #1. Freligh. Tai. October 5, 2016. Flickering Myth. October 5, 2016.
  11. Web site: Dynamite Announces 'Betty Boop' From Langridge And Lagacé. Sims. Chris. ComicsAlliance. 2016-07-18.
  12. Web site: Exclusive Preview: They're Hawaii Bound in Jem and the Holograms #24 - CBR. Comic Book Resources. 2017-03-25.
  13. Web site: Jerrica And Rio Talk It Out In Jem And The Holograms #25. Shiach. Kieran. ComicsAlliance. 2017-03-31.
  14. Web site: IDW's Jem and the Holograms Takes a Bow in April, But an Encore is Planned - CBR. Ching. Albert. Comic Book Resources. 2017-01-25.
  15. Web site: Johnston. Rich. Rich Johnston. Image Comics Launches Blackbird, Dead Rabbit, Errand Boys, Exorsisters, Infinite Dark, Jook Joint, Murder Falcon, Norroway in October 2018 Solicits. Bleeding Cool. July 24, 2018.