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| Born | 17 May 1983 (1983-05-17) (age 41) France |
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Notable works | L'Expédition |
| Awards | Prix Sorcières |
Audrey Spiry (born 17 May 1983) is a French animator, illustrator, and comic strip author. Her first album, En silence, was released in 2012. L’expédition was honoured with the Prix Sorcières, category Carrément Beau Maxi (2023). She is a member of Collective of female comics creators against sexism and works in animation.[1]
Audrey Spiry's father was a magician.[1] She first studied design at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, before enrolling at the École des métiers du cinéma d'animation [fr] and finally, at the School of Beaux-Arts.[2]
Her first comic strip album, En silence, (Casterman, 2012) took her two and a half years to complete.[1] The work, drawn with "bright colors treated with the digital palette with a gouache effect", concerns characters who spend a day of canyoning.[3] The album was one of the five finalists for the Prix de la BD du Point [fr] (2012)[4] and the Grand Prix de la critique (2013).[5] The work was favorably received in several media[6][7][8] and was translated into Italian in 2016.[9]
Spiry participates in the collective work Les Gens normaux, paroles lesbiennes gay bi trans (Casterman), directed by Hubert Boulard and containing testimonials and reference texts; the book was published in 2013.[10] Subsequently, Spiry illustrated children's books.[11] Spiry drew Lotte, fille pirate, on a screenplay by Sandrine Bonini; it appeared in Éditions Sarbacane [fr] in 2014.[12] With the same screenwriter, she created Tempête (2015).[13]
In 2022, she illustrated the children's book L'Expédition, based on a text by Stéphane Servant [fr]. The work won the Prix Sorcières 2023,[14] in the Carrément Beau Maxi category.
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