Axelle Lenoir
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Axelle Lenoir (born 1979, Notre-Dame-du-La)[1][2] is a Canadian transgender comic book author who lives in Quebec.
Life
Axelle Lenoir was introduced to comics very early; between the ages of 6 and 9, she discovered Philémon[3] and Spirou and Fantasio[1] in her father's comics collection.
She left home at the age of 16 to study visual arts at the Cégep de Sainte-Foy. In 1998, she moved to Rivière-du-Loup to take a course in graphic design.
Career
After graduating, she returned to Quebec, where she was hired by a video game company. After four years, the company closed its animation department and she decided to start a career in comics[4] .
In 2005, she published her first comic book series, Mertownville.[5] It has two volumes: Lydia and 1951.
In 2020, Axelle Lenoir removed references to Harry Potter in her comic What if we were... because of J K Rowling's views on trans people. She replaced them with a reference to the heroines Adora and Catra from the animated series She-ra and the Princesses of Power, known for having featured LGBT characters.[6]
Personal life
She publicly announced her transition in 2019, in an interview with Curium, a magazine for teenagers where her comic series, What if we were... (Si on était...) was published every week.[7]
Works
In English
- What If We Were #2 (2023)
- Secret Passages (2022)
- Camp Spirit (2020)
- What If We Were... (2019)
In French
- Si on était, #2 (2022)
- Passages Secrets (2020)
- Si on était, #1 (2019)
- L'Esprit du Camp #2 (2018)
- L'Esprit du Camp #1 (2017)
- Le Domaine Grisloire #2 (2015)
- Le Domaine Grisloire #1 (2014)
- French Kiss 1986 (2012)
- Luck (2010)
- Mertownville #3 (2007)
- Mertownville #2 (2005)
- Mertownville #1 (2005)
Awards and nominations
- Best First Volume (2006), Lycéens Picards, for Mertownville #1[8]
- Best Volume Published Abroad by a Québécois Writer (2011), Albéric-Bourgeois Prize, for Luck[9]
- Bédéis Causa Prize (2013) for French Kiss 1986.
- Québec Booksellers Prize (finalist, 2018), Comics Category, for L'Esprit du camp #1.[10]
- Québec Booksellers Prize (finalist) for L'esprit du camp, #2[11]
- Eisner Prize for What If We Were? (version anglaise de Si on était)[12][13]
- Comic Book Prize (finalist, 2023) Trois-Rivières Book Fair, Youth Comics Category, for Si on était..., #2[14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Entretien avec Michel Falardeau". chrysopee.net. Archived from the original on 2012-10-28. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
- ↑ "Reseña del cómic "El espíritu del bosque" de Axelle Lenoir". MondoSonoro (in español). 2021-10-13. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ↑ Interview sur Lapresse.ca, consulté le 27 septembre 2012
- ↑ Falardeau, Mira (2020). L'art de la bande dessinée actuelle au Québec. Presses de l'Université Laval. p. 120-121. ISBN 978-2-7637-4758-3.
- ↑ "20 bédéistes québécoises à lire". Radio-Canada.ca (in français). 8 March 2021. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ↑ Alexandre Vigneault (2020-06-25). "Harry Potter retiré d'une bédé québécoise". La Presse (in français). Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ↑ Vigneault, Alexandre (2019-05-28). "Axelle Lenoir: redessiner sa vie". La Presse (in français). Retrieved 2023-10-16.
- ↑ Article relatif au prix sur le site Bd.amiens.com, consulté le 27 septembre 2012
- ↑ Post relatif aux prix sur le blog de l'auteur, consulté le 27 septembre 2012
- ↑ "Historique BD - Prix des libraires" (in français). 2018-08-20. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
- ↑ Genest, Catherine. "Geneviève Pettersen mène la course en vue des Bédéis Causa". Voir.ca (in français). Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ↑ "Bandes dessinées | Ce que La Presse en pense". La Presse (in français). 2022-05-11. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ↑ "Les nommés des Eisner Awards 2021, avec Jousselin, Casanave, Cazot..." ActuaLitté.com (in français). Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ↑ Alarie, Marie-Eve B. (2023-02-18). "Un Salon du livre "sans frontières"". L’Écho de Maskinongé (in français). Retrieved 2023-04-02.
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