Virginie Augustin

Template:Short description Template:Infobox artist Virginie Augustin (11 March 1973, Chatou) is a French comics book artist. She has also worked on animated features with Walt Disney Animation Studios and France 3.

Biography

After studying at Gobelins, Augustin worked with Walt Disney Animation Studios on the animated features Tarzan (1999) and Hercules (1997). Her career in animation also led her to work on W.I.T.C.H. (2001), Dragon Hunters (2006), and Code Lyoko (2003) for France 3, and on the animated film Corto Maltese, la cour secrète des arcanes (2002).

(2008)

Shortly after Corto Maltese, in 2003, she joined the comic strip world and drew the four volumes of the bande dessinée heroic fantasy series Template:Ill with scriptwriter Template:Ill. Augustin then participated in several collectives (Template:Lang, Template:Lang, Template:Lang, Template:Lang, and Template:Lang). She also produced a sketchbook for Comix buro, the collection of books directed by Template:Ill.

Then she entered the collection of Template:Ill, where she drew Voyage aux Ombres,, a one-shot scripted by Christophe Arleston and Template:Ill, published in May 2011.

She collaborated with Hubert, who wrote for her the script of Template:Lang published in 2016, with which the authors won 2017 Template:Ill for best album.

Awards and honours

• 2017, Prix Diagonale for best album, script by Hubert, for Monsieur Désire?
• 2017, Finalist, Prix de la critique, script by Hubert, for Monsieur Désire?
• 2006, Prix Saint-Michel de l'avenir award, script by Wilfrid Lupano, for Alim le tanneur, tome 2: Le Vent de l'exil

Selected works

Series

• Alim le tanneur
  • 1, Le Secret des eaux, Delcourt, collection Terres de Légendes, 2004 (script, Wilfrid Lupano; design, Virginie Augustin; coloriss, Virginie Augustin, Geneviève Penloup)
  • 2, Le Vent de l'exil, Delcourt, collection Terres de Légendes, 2006 (script, Wilfrid Lupano; design, Virginie Augustin; colorists, Virginie Augustin, Geneviève Penloup)
  • 3, La Terre du prophète pâle, 2007, Delcourt, collection Terres de Légendes (Virginie Augustin)
  • 4, Là où brûlent les regards, 2009, Delcourt, collection Terres de Légendes (Virginie Augustin, Dimitri Fogolin)
  • INT Édition intégrale, 2012, Delcourt, collection Long Métrage (Virginie Augustin, Geneviève Penloup, Dimitri Fogolin)
• 40 Éléphants
  • 1, Florrie, doigts de fée, Bamboo Édition collection Grand Angle, 2017 (script, Kid Toussaint; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Hubert)
  • 2, Maggie, passe-muraille, Bamboo Édition collection Grand Angle, 2018 (script, Kid Toussaint; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Hubert)
  • 3, Dorothy, la poinçonneuse, Bamboo Édition collection Grand Angle, 2019 (script, Kid Toussaint; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Hubert)

One-shots and diptychs

• Voyage aux ombres, Soleil, collection Légendes de Troy, 2011 (script, Christophe Arleston, Audrey Alwett; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Yoann Guillo)
• Whaligoë tome 1, Casterman, 2013 (script, Yann; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Virginie Augustin, Fabien Alquier)
• Whaligoë tome 2, Casterman, 2014 (script, Yann; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Fabien Alquier)
• Monsieur désire?, Glénat, 2016 (script, Hubert; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Hubert)
• Shadows in the Moonlight, Glénat, 2019 (script and pencils, Virginie Augustin)
• Joe la Pirate, Glénat, 2021 (script, Hubert; design, Virginie Augustin)

Participation in collective works

• Francis Cabrel - Les beaux dessins, Delcourt, 2005 (script and color, collective; design, Virginie Augustin, collective)
• Polnareff suite de bulles, Soleil Productions, 2007 (script and color, collective; design, Virginie Augustin, collective)
• Premières fois, Delcourt, 2008 (script, Sibylline; design, Virginie Augustin, collective; colorist, black and white)
• Sur les traces de Luuna, Soleil Productions, 2008 (script and color, collective; design, Virginie Augustin, collective)
• Souvenirs de films, Le Lombard, 2009 (script, Jean-Pierre Eugène; design, Virginie Augustin, collective; colorist, collective)
• Une McStory française, Cliomédia, 2009 (script, Pierre Dottelonde; design, Virginie Augustin, collective; colorist, collective)
• Les Gens normaux, Casterman, 2013 (script, Cyril Pedrosa, Hubert; design, Virginie Augustin, collective; colorist, collective)
• Héro(ïne)s : la représentation féminine en bande-dessinée, Arte Editions, 2015 (script, Jean-Christophe Deveney, Isabelle Guillaume; design, Virginie Augustin, collective; colorist, collective)