Christine Roche (born 1939) is a French-Canadian illustrator, cartoonist, teacher and film-maker who lives and works in London.
Christine Roche has illustrated many books, both for children and adults, and worked for a number of leading publishers.
Roche cartooned for the publication Spare Rib before co-founding and self-publishing Sourcream in 1979 with Jo Nesbitt, Liz Mackie and Lesley Ruda.
[6] She also co-directed the short animated films The Stain (1991)[7] viewable at the Internet Archive and Someone Must Be Trusted (1987).
[8] In addition, she designed the characters[9] in the children's television cartoon series Treasure[10] Her work appears in the anthology Funny Girls – Cartooning for Equality edited by Diane Atkinson (Penguin Books, 1997),[11] and The Inking Woman: 250 Years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain, edited by Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate (Myriad Editions, 2018).