Catherine Meurisse

[1][2] Born in Niort in 1980 and interested in drawing since she was young, she graduated in modern languages and French philology from the University of Poitiers.

[3] At the age of 17, she won first prize in the National School Cartoon Competition organized by the Angoulême Festival, which encouraged her to become a professional cartoonist.

[4] Meurisse's solo debut came in 2008 with the graphic novel Mes hommes de lettres, where she takes a humorous look at French literary figures.

[6] Meurisse was one of the contributors to issue 1178, took five months to return to work as a result of the ensuing trauma, and eventually channeled her entire experience into the graphic novel La Légèreté (Lightness; 2016),[5] a finalist in the official section of the 2017 Angoulême Festival.

[7] In 2019 Catherine Meurisse lived for several months at Villa Kujoyama, a residence for artists in Kyoto, where she tried to resume her work under a new perspective, Japanese landscapes.