| Birth Date: | 1970 6, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | New Brunswick, Canada |
| Cartoonist: | Y |
| Write: | Y |
| Art: | Y |
| Pencil: | Y |
| Ink: | Y |
| Edit: | Y |
| Publish: | Y |
| 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]
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]
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]