Aude Massot (born 27 September 1983,
Les Lilas) is a French ''
bande dessinée''
comic book
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artist. She is a member of the
Collective of female comics creators against sexism. Her
non-fiction comics
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Comic strips and comic books
Traditionally, comic strips have long offered factual m ...
book with Karim Lebhour, (2018) was shortlisted for the
France Info Prize The France Info Prize for news and reporting comics (French: ''prix France Info de la Bande dessinée d’actualité et de reportage'') is a comic book prize awarded annually by the French public radio station France Info. The jury of the station's ...
(2019).
Biography
Aude Massot studied for four years at the
Institut Saint-Luc in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
, Belgium until 2006.
She then worked in
Paris
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in
advertising
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and
animation
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. In 2009, she published her first
album
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, (published by Les Enfants Rouges), which she drew on a
script
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* Script, a distinctive writing system, based on a repertoire of specific elements or symbols, or that repertoire
* Script (styles of handwriting)
** Script typeface, a typeface with characteristics of handw ...
by Fabien Bertrand containing a "dark and cynical" narrative.
With the same writer, she delivered in 2011 and 2013, which, under a humorous angle, tells the story of a "couple of mythical robbers".
Next, Massot teamed up with Édouard Bourré-Guilbert and Pauline Bardin, who wrote the script for Massot's humorous ''Québec Land'', published in 2014, which focuses on two young French
expatriate
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s.
Originally from Le Mans, Bourré-Guilbert and Bardin moved to
Montreal
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temporarily in 2011 and ran a column. They got in touch with Massot, who also spent time in Montreal.
[Martineau, Pauline, "Québec Land : l'aventure de deux Manceaux à Montréal en BD", Le Maine libre, 21 May 2014 ] The episodes were broadcast for free on
Delitoon for several months and met with some success before proposed a publication.
By herself, Massot undertakes non-fiction comics for
SAMU Social
A SAMU Social is a municipal humanitarian emergency service in several cities in France and worldwide whose purpose is to provide care and medical ambulatory aid and nursing to homeless people and people in social distress. This is partially acc ...
, published by in 2017, .
Inspired by the stories of a social worker, she meets and accompanies while he does his work within SAMU Social.
She continued in the same documentary vein by collaborating with Karim Lebhour,
Radio France Internationale
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's UN correspondent from 2010 to 2014, for a comic book about the
United Nations
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, (2018).
The book was reviewed by various media, such as ''
Le Monde
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'',
''
France Inter
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'',
''
La Croix La Croix primarily refers to:
* ''La Croix'' (newspaper), a French Catholic newspaper
* La Croix Sparkling Water, a beverage distributed by the National Beverage Corporation
La Croix or Lacroix may also refer to:
Places
* Lacroix-Barrez, a muni ...
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and
Le Petit Journal.
The album was shortlisted for the France Info Prize (2019).
Selected works
* ''Chronique d'une chair grillée'' (design by Massot; script by Fabien Bertrand), Les Enfants Rouges, coll. "Coquelicot", 2009
* ''La sulfureuse épopée des bandits Miki et Magda'' (design by Massot; script by Fabien Bertrand), Les Enfants Rouges, coll. "Coquelicot"
# ''La propagande par le fait'', 2011
# ''Quand la croix brûle'', 2013
* ''Québec land'' (design by Massot; script by Édouard Bourré-Guilbert and Pauline Bardin), Éditions Sarbacane, 2014
* ''Chronique du 115'', Steinkis Groupe, 2017
* ''Une saison à l'ONU, au cœur de la diplomatie mondiale'' (design by Massot; script by Karim Lebhour), Steinkis, 2018
* ''Robinson à Pékin'' (design by Massot; script by Éric Meyer), Urban Comics, 2021
* ''Ouagadougou Pressé'' (design by Massot; script by Roukiata Ouedraogo), Sarbacane, 2021
* ''Les grandes et les petites choses'' (design by Massot; script by ), Nathan bandes dessinées, 2022
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1983 births
Living people
People from Les Lilas
French comics artists
French female comics artists