| Birth Name: | Johanna Schipper |
| Birth Date: | 1967 |
| Birth Place: | Changhua, Taiwan |
| Nationality: | French |
| Alias: | Johanna |
| Awards: | Prix Artémisia |
| Cartoonist: | y |
| Artist: | y |
| Colorist: | y |
Johanna Schipper (born 1967), known by the pen name Johanna and more rarely as Nina, is a Taiwanese-born French bande dessinée comic book cartoonist, short story writer, and educator of Dutch heritage. She is a laureate of the 2008 for women's comics.
She was born in 1967 in Taiwan,[1] to a Dutch mother and a sinologist father.[2] She lived there until the age of three and a half, and then followed her parents to the Netherlands and then to France, where the Schipper family settled in 1974.[3]
After graduating from high school, she studied comics at the (ÉESI) (European School of Image) in Angoulême.
She began working as a colorist, notably with on the series French: Le Temps des bombes published in the early 1990s and with on the album French: Le Beurgeois published in 1997.
From 1993 until 2000, she published short stories for fanzines and illustrations for young people. In 1999, she resumed the adventures of Nana, the heroine of French: Les Phosfées, five of which were published in black and white in the French comic magazines Le Lézard, PLG, or Ogoun! between 1995 and 1997, and she reproduced them in color in the youth collection of Delcourt, dedicating these albums to the universe of dreams.
Moving away from the field of comics for youth, she proposed an album largely autobiographical, French: Née quelque part, published in 2004 (later translated into Chinese), where she returned to the places of her childhood in Taiwan,[4]
This was followed in 2006 by French: Une par une and in 2007 by French: Nos âmes sauvages, which won the 2008 Prix Artémisia for women's comics. In the early 2010s, she published a diptych, French: Le Printemps refleurira.
Since 2010, Schipper has been teaching at the ÉESI in Angoulême5.[5]
Expanded reissue of a story and under the name "Johanna", La Boîte à bulles, 2010 .