Audrey Spiry
Audrey Spiry 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. She is a member of Collective of [female comics creators against sexism] and works in animation.
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.Her first comic strip album, En silence, 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. The album was one of the five finalists for the and the Grand Prix [de la critique]. The work was favorably received in several media and was translated into Italian in 2016.
Spiry participates in the collective work Les Gens normaux, paroles lesbiennes gay bi trans, directed by Hubert Boulard and containing testimonials and reference texts; the book was published in 2013. Subsequently, Spiry illustrated children's books. Spiry drew Lotte, fille pirate, on a screenplay by Sandrine Bonini; it appeared in in 2014. With the same screenwriter, she created Tempête.
In 2022, she illustrated the children's book L'Expédition, based on a text by. The work won the Prix Sorcières 2023, in the Carrément Beau Maxi category.
Awards and honours
- 2012, Finalist of the "Prix de la BD du Point", for En silence
- 2013, Finalist for the Prix de la critique, for En Silence
- 2023, Prix Sorcières, category Carrément Beau Maxi, for L’expédition, text by Stéphane Servant