Sandrine Revel
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Sandrine Revel | |
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 Revel in 2021 | |
| Born | 3 October 1969 |
| Alma mater | École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux |
| Known for | Comic illustrations |
| Website | sandrinerevel |
Sandrine Revel (born 3 October 1969) is a French bande dessinée illustrator and author of comics.
Born in Langon, Gironde, 3 October 1969,[1][2] Sandrine Revel spent three years at the École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux and graduated.[2]
In 1996, she published her first album, Jouvence La Bordelaise,[2] based on a script by Frédéric Bouchet and, at the same time, she drew for Sud Ouest Dimanche and Milan Presse.[2]
In 1999, based on a script by Denis-Pierre Filippi, Revel drew the children's comic strip, Un drôle d'ange gardien.[3] The album earned her the Prix jeune espoir at Quai des Bulles in 2000,[4] and, in 2001, the second volume, Un zoo à New York, won the Prix Alph-Art jeunesse at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.[5]
The following year, she published Le 11e jour, a testimony of the September 11 attacks in 2001.[6] She joined forces with Claude Bourgeyx, who wrote the script for her for Monsieur Régis, published in 2009. The following year, she wrote a series, Résurgences, Femmes en voie de resociabilisation (Resurgences, Women on the Way to Resocialization)[7] as well as Sorcellerie & dépendances, a parodic story.[8] Based on a script by Marzena Sowa, Revel drew N'embrassez pas qui vous voulez, published in 2012, about Poland in the Stalin era.[9]
Inspired by the performance of Océanerosemarie, Revel designed in 2013 La Lesbienne invisible,, on a script by Murielle Magellan.[10] In 2015, Revel illustrated the children's book Le voyage de June written by Sophie Kovess-Brun, and published by Des ronds dans l'O. The book evokes female homosexuality and LGBT parenting through June's "two moms".[11][12] The same year, a biography on Glenn Gould was published, Glenn Gould, une vie à contretemps, which Revel wrote and illustrated.[13] This work earned her the Prix Artémisia in 2016.[14]
In 2018, she wrote and drew Pygmalion.[15] Three years later, she delivered a biography of Tom Thomson, om Thomson, esquisses d'un printemps.[16] In 2020, on a script by Isabelle Bauthian, Revel drew Chroniques de San Francisco.[17]
In 2022, together with Théa Rojzman, Revel won the high school prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for the graphic novel Grand silence,[18] on the theme of sexual violence against children.[19]
