Pénélope Bagieu
Pénélope Bagieu was born in Paris in 1982. After studying at Arts Déco in Paris, then at Central Saint Martins in London, she created “Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante” in 2007, a comic blog where she portrays the daily life of a young Parisian woman with striking humor and grace.
Success quickly continued in print. She came up with the adventures of Joséphine, and started drawing for the press and advertising.
She published a first feature story with Cadavre exquis, in 2010, then a first biography with California Dreamin’ (Harvey Award 2018).
In 2016, the feminist dimension of her work took widened its scope with the publication of women portraits under the title Culottées, which was met with resounding success. Translated in 22 languages and crowned with an Eisner Award in 2019, the two volumes of Culottées were also adapted into an animated series by France TV. In 2020, she published a children comic book for the first time, by brilliantly adapting Roald Dahl’s Sacrées Sorcières. In 2021, she tackled her first autobiography with Les Strates.
