Template:Short description Axelle Lenoir (born 1979, Notre-Dame-du-La)[1][2] is a Canadian comic book author who lives in Quebec.
Early 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
Lenoir is transgender. 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
External links
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