Nancy Peña (born 13 August 1979, Toulouse) is a French bande dessinée (BD) comics author and children's literature illustrator.
[1] She attended the École normale supérieure de Cachan where she obtained an Agrégation in applied arts in 2003.
[4] With Blandine Le Callet [fr] as writer, Peña illustrated a graphic novel retelling of the mythological character of Medea.
[5][6] The 4-volume series met with critical success[7][8][9][10] notably cited as one of the 100 BD of the century at the 2020 Angoulême International Comics Festival.
[15] Among the numerous children's publications illustrated by Peña, Les Guerriers de glace (Nathan, 2019) by Estelle Faye received the Prix Imaginales [fr] at the 2019 Epinal book festival.