Johanna Schipper (born 1967), known by the

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Johanna and more rarely as Nina, is a Taiwanese-born French '' bande dessinée'' comic book

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, short story writer, and educator of Dutch heritage. She is a laureate of the 2008 for women's comics.

Early life and education

She was born in 1967 in Taiwan, to a Dutch mother and a

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father. 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. After graduating from high school, she studied comics at the (ÉESI) (European School of Image) in

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Career

She began working as a colorist, notably with on the series published in the early 1990s and with on the album published in 1997. From 1993 until 2000, she published short stories for

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s and

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s for young people. In 1999, she resumed the adventures of Nana, the heroine of , five of which were published in

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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, , published in 2004 (later translated into Chinese), where she returned to the places of her childhood in Taiwan, This was followed in 2006 by and in 2007 by , which won the 2008 Prix Artémisia for women's comics. In the early 2010s, she published a diptych, . Since 2010, Schipper has been teaching at the ÉESI in Angoulême5.

Awards

* 2008, Artémisia Prize for the female comic strip for ''Nos âmes sauvages''

Selected works

* ''Les Phosfées'', Delcourt, coll. "Jeunesse", 3 vol., 2000–2002. * ''Née quelque part'', Delcourt, coll. "Mirages", 2004 * ''Une par une'', Éditions de l'an 2, coll. "Traits féminins", 2005 (writing as "Nina") *:Expanded reissue of a story and under the name "Johanna", La Boîte à bulles, 2010 . * ''Les Six Cygnes'' (according to the tale of the brothers Grimm), Delcourt, coll. "Jeunesse", 2006 * ''Nos âmes sauvages'', Futuropolis, 2007 . Prix Artémisia 2008. * ''Le printemps refleurira'', Futuropolis, 2 vol., 2010

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schipper, Johanna 1967 births Living people People from Changhua County French comics artists French female comics artists French illustrators Taiwanese emigrants to France 20th-century French short story writers 20th-century French women writers Pseudonymous women writers Pseudonymous artists Comics colorists