Chantal Montellier, born on August 1, 1947,[1] in Bouthéon near Saint-Étienne in the Loire Department, is a French comics creator and artist, editorial cartoonist, novelist, and painter.

She integrated many "modernist" graphic experiments (like Bazooka (artist collective) [fr]) before settling on her own profoundly original aesthetic.

[4] Her dystopian strip 1996, originally appearing in Métal Hurlant, was reprinted in Heavy Metal in the United States in the late 1970s, bringing her work to the notice of Anglophone readers.

[8] Among her projects is her personal web site where, since 2007, her autobiographical account De l'art et des cochons (Of Art and Pigs) prominently features her comics universe (its actresses and actors, publishers, etc.)

In 2007 she co-founded, with Jeanne Puchol, the Prix Artémisia [fr],[9][10] named for Artemisia Gentileschi, a prize annually awarded to comics created by one or more women.