La Pastèque is a French Canadian publisher of comics, based in Montréal, Québec.

La Pastèque ("The Watermelon" in English) was founded by Martin Brault and Frédéric Gauthier in Montréal, Québec in July 1998, and their first publication, the first volume of Spoutnik, appeared that December.

[1] The establishment publisher arose from talks between Brault and Gauthier about the state of comics in Québec around 1997.

They are the main French-language publisher of a number of artists such as Michel Rabagliati, and have also revived older albums, such as Jean-Paul Eid's Jérôme Bigras and Réal Godbout & Pierre Fournier's Red Ketchup.

[1] La Pastèque has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles ("Society for the Development of Cultural Enterprises") and the Government of Quebec's tax credit program for support of book publishers.