Audrey Spiry Explained

Birth Place:France
Notable Works:L'Expédition
Awards:Prix Sorcières

Audrey Spiry (born 17 May 1983) is a French animator, illustrator, and comic strip author. Her first album, En silence, was released in 2012. L’expédition was honoured with the Prix Sorcières, category Carrément Beau Maxi (2023). She is a member of Collective of female comics creators against sexism and works in animation.[1]

Biography

Audrey Spiry's father was a magician. She first studied design at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, before enrolling at the and finally, at the School of Beaux-Arts.[2]

Her first comic strip album, En silence, (Casterman, 2012) took her two and a half years to complete. The work, drawn with "bright colors treated with the digital palette with a gouache effect", concerns characters who spend a day of canyoning.[3] The album was one of the five finalists for the (2012)[4] and the Grand Prix de la critique (2013).[5] The work was favorably received in several media[6] [7] [8] and was translated into Italian in 2016.[9]

Spiry participates in the collective work French: Les Gens normaux, paroles lesbiennes gay bi trans (Casterman), directed by Hubert Boulard and containing testimonials and reference texts; the book was published in 2013.[10] Subsequently, Spiry illustrated children's books.[11] Spiry drew French: Lotte, fille pirate, on a screenplay by Sandrine Bonini; it appeared in in 2014.[12] With the same screenwriter, she created Tempête (2015).[13]

In 2022, she illustrated the children's book L'Expédition, based on a text by . The work won the Prix Sorcières 2023,[14] in the Carrément Beau Maxi category.

Awards and honours

Selected works

Bande dessinée

Drawing

Notes and References

  1. News: Missia Dio . Christian . Audrey Spiry ("En Silence") : « Avoir un projet commun est un élément déterminant dans la réussite d’un couple » . 2 July 2023 . ActuaBD . 10 September 2012 . fr.
  2. "Les métiers de la BD. Les métiers de la bande dessinée, de l'animation et du jeu vidéo", Télérama, 1 December 2012.
  3. News: "En Silence - Par Audrey Spiry - Kstr" . Taugis . David . 2 July 2023 . 7 July 2012 . fr.
  4. News: Brethes . Romain . Les cinq autres finalistes du Prix de la BD du "Point" . 2 July 2023 . Le Point . 25 October 2012 . fr.
  5. Fabien Deglise, "L'ACBD dévoile les finalistes pour son Grand Prix de bande dessinée 2013", Le Devoir, 27 November 2012.
  6. Web site: En silence : la critique Télérama . 2 July 2023 . www.telerama.fr . fr.
  7. News: Boussin . O. . En silence . 2 July 2023 . www.bdgest.com . 17 July 2012 . fr.
  8. Nicolas Witczak, "BD: En Silence d'Audrey Spiry", Moustique, 26 June 2012 (French language)
  9. News: Alla ricerca di un sé autentico, ma banale: In Silenzio di Audrey Spiry . Santoro . Piero . 2 July 2023 . Fumettologica. archive.wikiwix.com . 11 January 2017 . fr.
  10. News: Detournay . Charles-Louis . LGBT - La bande dessinée proclame le droit à l’indifférence . 2 July 2023 . actuabd.com . archive.wikiwix.com . 7 November 2013 . fr.
  11. Web site: Rêves d'Océans. Audrey Spiry, côté mer . letelegramme.fr . archive.wikiwix.com . 2 July 2023 . fr . 13 June 2015.
  12. Marine Landrot, "Lotte fille pirate, Sandrine Bonini et Audrey Spiry", Télérama, 31 May 2014. (French language)
  13. M. B., "Une Tempête de couleurs aux dessins poétiques", Le Parisien, 3 December 2015. (in French)
  14. News: Landrot . Marine . L’Expédition . 2 July 2023 . telerama.fr . archive.wikiwix.com . 2 May 2022 . fr.

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