Claire Bouilhac
Claire Bouilhac is a French bande dessinée illustrator, scriptwriter, and colorist, working in particular for Spirou and Fluide Glacial. She mainly draws the series Maude Mutante, , and Melody Bondage. She is a 2022 laureate of the.
Biography
Claire Bouilhac was born in 1970. From 1994, she teamed up with scriptwriter for the series Francis Blaireau Farceur, which has seven volumes and a special issue.In 2016, adapting the Francis series, the Victor B. company organized the show Francis sauve le monde at the, featuring 30 of the 240 short stories.
Bouilhac has collaborated with Catel Muller on several occasions; the two met on the sidelines of the Angoulême International Comics Festival and found affinities, particularly in terms of feminism.
They collaborated on the Top Linotte series and on two biographies: Rose Valland, captain Beaux-Arts and another on Mylène Demongeot, Adieu Kharkov, with preface by Pierre Richard. The two authors begin their work with Les lilas de Kharkov but, after lengthy interviews with the actress, they retraced her life and that of her mother, Claudia. The realization of the album took three years, from period photos. In the wake of this work, an exhibition on this graphic novel was held at Château-Gontier.
In 2019, she collaborated with Catel Muller on a comic book adaptation of La Princesse de Clèves.
Then in 2023, Bouilhac and Muller adapted George Sand's Indiana into a graphic novel published by Europe Comics.
Awards and honours
- 2022,
Selected works
Series
''Francis Blaireau Farceur''
- No. 1 Francis blaireau farceur, scriptwriter, Jake Raynal, designer, Claire Bouilhac, coloring, B&W, 1994, "Delphine"
- No. 2 Francis veut mourir, B&W, 1996, Cornélius coll. "Delphine"
- No. 3 Francis cherche l'amour, 1997, Cornélius coll. "Delphine"
- No. 4 Francis sauve le mond, 2005, Cornélius coll. "Delphine"
- No. 5 Francis rate sa vie, 2009, Cornélius coll. "Delphine"
- No. 6 Francis est malade, 2013, Cornélius coll. "Delphine"
- No. 7 Francis est papa, 2017, Cornélius coll. "Delphine"
- Special edition, Francis, 2013, Cornélius coll. "Delphine"