Sandrine Revel

Sandrine Revel is a French bande dessinée illustrator and author of comics.

Biography

Born in Langon, Gironde, 3 October 1969, Sandrine Revel spent three years at the and graduated.
In 1996, she published her first album, Jouvence La Bordelaise, based on a script by Frédéric Bouchet and, at the same time, she drew for Sud Ouest Dimanche and Milan Presse.
In 1999, based on a script by, Revel drew the children's comic strip, Un drôle d'ange gardien. The album earned her the Prix jeune espoir at in 2000, and, in 2001, the second volume, Un zoo à New York, won the Prix Alph-Art jeunesse at the Angoulême [International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book|Angoulême International Comics Festival].
The following year, she published Le 11e jour, a testimony of the September 11 attacks in 2001. She joined forces with, who wrote the script for her for Monsieur Régis, published in 2009. The following year, she wrote a series, Résurgences, Femmes en voie de resociabilisation as well as Sorcellerie & dépendances, a parodic story. Based on a script by Marzena Sowa, Revel drew N'embrassez pas qui vous voulez, published in 2012, about Poland in the Stalin era.
Inspired by the performance of, Revel designed in 2013 La Lesbienne invisible,, on a script by Murielle Magellan. In 2015, Revel illustrated the children's book Le voyage de June written by, and published by. The book evokes female homosexuality and LGBT parenting through June's "two moms". The same year, a biography on Glenn Gould was published, Glenn Gould, une vie à contretemps, which Revel wrote and illustrated. This work earned her the in 2016.
In 2018, she wrote and drew Pygmalion. Three years later, she delivered a biography of Tom Thomson, om Thomson, esquisses d'un printemps. In 2020, on a script by, Revel drew Chroniques de San Francisco.
In 2022, together with Théa Rojzman, Revel won the high school prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for the graphic novel Grand silence, on the theme of sexual violence against children.

Selected works

Albums

Jouvence La Bordelaise, script by Frédéric Bouchet, Atlantic Productions, 1996 Les folles aventures d'Ulysse et Umour ou Les joies du camping-car, text by Maïthé Parrot, 1995 Bla Bla Bla !,, 1998 Le 11e jour, Delcourt, 2002 Intérieur Jazz, Tourism and Convention Bureau, Antibes, 2003 Monsieur Régis, script by Claude Bourgeyx,, 2009 Résurgences – Femmes en voie de resociabilisation,, 2010 Sorcellerie et dépendances, Dupuis, 2010 N'embrassez pas qui vous voulez, script by Marzena Sowa, Dupuis, 2013 La Lesbienne invisible, script by Murielle Magellan, based on the show by Océanerosemarie, Delcourt, 2013 Glenn Gould, une vie à contretemps, Dargaud, 2015 Pygmalion, freely inspired by the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, BD in partnership with France Musique, 2018 Tom Thomson, esquisses d'un printemps, Dargaud, 2019 Chroniques de San Francisco, script by Isabelle Bauthian,, 2020 Grand silence, script by Théa Rojzman, Glénat Editions 2021

Children's albums

Series Un drôle d'ange gardien, script by, Delcourt
# Un drôle d'ange gardien, 1998
# Un zoo à New York, 1999
# Diablo et Juliette, 2000
# Des vacances d'enfer, 2001
# Le voleur d'étoiles, 2001
# Le démon chinois, 2004
# Le Nuage-Danse, 2008Le jardin autre monde, script by Denis-Pierre Filippi, Delcourt, 2006Les Petits chats carrés : Petitchat et la lune, with Myriam Revel, Carabas jeunesse 2007 Un amour de pou, text by Gudule, Glénat, 2007 Le voyage de June, written by Sophie Kovess-Brun, Des ronds dans l'O, 2015

Awards and distinctions

2001: Alph-Art Youth Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for the album Un drôle d'ange gardien, volume 2: Un zoo à New York, written by Denis-Pierre Filippi, illustrated by Revel
2016: Prix Artémisia for Glenn Gould, une vie à contretemps
2022: Prix des lycées at the Angoulême International Comics Festival with Théa Rojzman for Grand silence
2022: Special Mention Prize, for Grand Silence
2022: -LCP for ''Grand Silence''