Peggy Adam (born 1974) is a French

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artist and illustrator. She studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Saint-Étienne, at the

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in Toronto, and at the ESI (Ecole Supérieure de l'Image) in Angoulême. She created posters for the

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's theater, and cartoons for French national newspapers and magazines such as ''

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'', '' Libération'', ''

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'', ''Femina'', and ''Bang''. She now lives in

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and holds a regular comics section in the daily newspaper ''

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''. Her most famous graphic novel, '' Luchadoras'', which was part of the Sélection Officielle of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, was first published by Swiss publisher Atrabile in 2006. It was published by UK-based publisher Blank Slate Books in early 2011. She also published three other books with Atrabile, all part of the ''Plus ou Moins...'' series: ''Plus ou moins... le printemps'' in 2005, ''Plus ou moins... l'été'' in 2006 and ''Plus ou moins... l'automne'' in 2007.

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1974 births French comics artists French female comics artists French women illustrators Living people OCAD University alumni Artists from Geneva 20th-century French illustrators 21st-century French illustrators {{France-artist-stub