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Mira Falardeau (born 1948) is a
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historian, professor, and author of comic strips (French: ''bande dessinée'', BD). Falardeau has devoted works to Québec animated films, Québec comic strips and caricatures in Québec, focusing on visual humour in all its forms. She taught as a professor of cinema and communication at
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and the
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. Falardeau has also curated exhibitions in the visual arts and operated a small publishing house.


Biography

Falardeau graduated with a Master's degree in art history from
Laval University Laval means ''The Valley'' in old French and is the name of: People * House of Laval, a French noble family originating from the town of Laval, Mayenne * Laval (surname) Places Belgium * Laval, a village in the municipality of Sainte-Ode, Luxemb ...
in Québec in 1978. Her thesis was ''L'Humour visuel: un modèle d'analyse visuelle des images comiques'' (English: Visual Humour: A Model for Visual Analysis of Comic Images). As a comic book author, Falardeau began in 1974 by publishing in the Québec newspaper ''Mainbasse'' and the following year in its supplement, ''Perspectives''. From 1976 to 1980, she produced a monthly strip in the Montréal magazine ''
Châtelaine ''Châtelaine'' is a French-language magazine of women's lifestyles, published in Quebec by St. Joseph Communications. History and profile The magazine was first published in 1960 by Maclean-Hunter Publishing. It covers issues and interests o ...
'' and continued her collaborations with ''Le Fil des événements'' (Québec) and ''CWS / CF Les cahiers de la femme'' (Toronto). In 1982, she collaborated on the magazine ''Le Temps fou'' (Montréal) and from 1984 to 1987 with . magazine. In 1981 Falardeau obtained her Ph.D. from the Institute of Aesthetics and Art Sciences at the
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( The Sorbonne). Her thesis was ''La bande dessinée faite par les femmes en France et au Québec depuis 1960'' (The comics made by women in France and Québec since 1960). Falardeau was a professor of cinema and communication and French at Laval University (1975–1976 and 1992), the
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(1983–1984), at
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(1987–1989) and Cégep de Limoilou (1997–2005). Falardeau has published several articles on the subject of comics in various newspapers and magazines. Falardeau helped found the Société des créateur(trice)s et ami(e)s de la bande dessinée (Society of Creators and Friends of Comics, ScaBD) in 1985, and was the organization's president and spokesperson for several years. She is also a member of the Observatoire de l'humor, a group dedicated to research on humour in all its forms. In 1993, she founded Éditions Falardeau, a small publishing house that published most collections of her husband, author André-Philippe Côté . It ceased operations in 1998, after selling its fund to Éditions Soulières. Falardeau has worked to legitimize comics as a recognized art form and as a tool for democracy and peace. She curated many exhibitions, including ''Les aventures de la bande dessinée québécoise au musée du Québec'' (The Adventures of the Québec Comic Strip at the Québec Museum) on the 100th anniversary of Québec comics (1997). Her ''Histoire de la caricature au Québec'' (''History of Caricature in Québec''), co-written with Robert Aird, received two awards in 2010: the 3rd prize of the political book of the presidency of the
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in April and the grand prize of the National Assembly awarded by '' Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française''  in October. Since 2008, Falardeau has devoted herself to humorous carvings on wood and mixed mediums.


Major works


Comic strips

*Publications in the magazines ''Châtelaine'' (1970s) and ''La Vie en rose'' (1980s). * *


Books

* **Augmented and updated reissue under the title * * * * Falardeau, Mira (2020). ''L'art de la bande dessinée actuelle au Québec'', Quebec, University of Laval PressChris Reyns, ''Canadian Review of Literature,'' June 2020, 13-18 Falardeau, Mira (2020). ''A History of Women Cartoonists'', Toronto, Mosaic Press. Augmented and updated reissue under the title ''Femmes et humour''.


Exhibitions as guest curator

*''Les Aventures de la bande dessinée québécoise'', Museum of Québec, 1997–1998 *''André-Philippe Côté, du bon côté'', Maison Hamel-Bruneau, 2003 *''Les débuts de la bande dessinée québécoise de 1904 à 1908'',
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, 2004 *''Dessine-moi un jeu- des jeux dans les journaux aux jeux vidéo'', Le Grand Rire, 2006 *''André-Philippe Côté, un certain côté de Québec'', Bibliothèque de Charlesbourg, 2007 *''Les histoires en images: ancêtres de la BD'', Grande Bibliothèque de Montréal, 2008 *''Manga: art du mouvement et Raconte-moi un manga'', Grande Bibliothèque de Montréal, 2011–2013 *''L'arme du rire: Caricature et liberté d'expression'', Bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy, Québec, 2015


See also

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Female comics creators Although, traditionally, female comics creators have long been a minority in the industry, they have made a notable impact since the very beginning, and more and more female artists are getting recognition along with the maturing of the medium. Wo ...
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Quebec comics Quebec comics (french: bande dessinée québécoise, or BDQ) are French language comics produced primarily in the Canadian province of Quebec, and read both within and outside Canada, particularly in French-speaking Europe. In contrast to Englis ...


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Further reading

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Mira Falardeau biography
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