Sandrine Revel

Sandrine Revel (born 3 October 1969) is a French bande dessinée illustrator and author of comics.

Sandrine Revel
Revel in 2021
Born	3 October 1969 Langon, Gironde
Alma mater	École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux
Known for	Comic illustrations
Website	sandrinerevel.com

Biography

Born in Langon, Gironde, 3 October 1969,^[1][2] Sandrine Revel spent three years at the École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux [fr] and graduated.^[2]

In 1996, she published her first album, Jouvence La Bordelaise,^[2] based on a script by Frédéric Bouchet and, at the same time, she drew for Sud Ouest Dimanche and Milan Presse.^[2]

In 1999, based on a script by Denis-Pierre Filippi [fr], Revel drew the children's comic strip, Un drôle d'ange gardien.^[3] The album earned her the Prix jeune espoir at Quai des Bulles [fr] in 2000,^[4] and, in 2001, the second volume, Un zoo à New York, won the Prix Alph-Art jeunesse at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.^[5]

The following year, she published Le 11e jour, a testimony of the September 11 attacks in 2001.^[6] She joined forces with Claude Bourgeyx [fr], 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 (Resurgences, Women on the Way to Resocialization)^[7] as well as Sorcellerie & dépendances, a parodic story.^[8] Based on a script by Marzena Sowa, Revel drew N'embrassez pas qui vous voulez, published in 2012, about Poland in the Stalin era.^[9]

Revel in Saint-Malo in 2012

Inspired by the performance of Océanerosemarie [fr], Revel designed in 2013 La Lesbienne invisible,, on a script by Murielle Magellan.^[10] In 2015, Revel illustrated the children's book Le voyage de June written by Sophie Kovess-Brun [fr], and published by Des ronds dans l'O [fr]. The book evokes female homosexuality and LGBT parenting through June's "two moms".^[11][12] The same year, a biography on Glenn Gould was published, Glenn Gould, une vie à contretemps, which Revel wrote and illustrated.^[13] This work earned her the Prix Artémisia [fr] in 2016.^[14]

In 2018, she wrote and drew Pygmalion.^[15] Three years later, she delivered a biography of Tom Thomson, om Thomson, esquisses d'un printemps.^[16] In 2020, on a script by Isabelle Bauthian [fr], Revel drew Chroniques de San Francisco.^[17]

In 2022, together with Théa Rojzman, Revel won the high school prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for the graphic novel Grand silence,^[18] on the theme of sexual violence against children.^[19]

Selected works

Albums

• Jouvence La Bordelaise, script by Frédéric Bouchet, Atlantic Productions, 1996 ISBN 978-2-9509729-0-3
• Les folles aventures d'Ulysse et Umour ou Les joies du camping-car, text by Maïthé Parrot, 1995 BnF 35787436
• Bla Bla Bla !, Le Cycliste [fr], 1998 ISBN 2-912249-43-0
• Le 11e jour, Delcourt, 2002 ISBN 2-84055-940-4
• Intérieur Jazz, Tourism and Convention Bureau, Antibes, 2003 ISBN 2-9520018-0-4 BnF 39010625
• Monsieur Régis, script by Claude Bourgeyx, Les Enfants rouges [fr], 2009 ISBN 978-2-354-19020-0
• Résurgences – Femmes en voie de resociabilisation, La Boîte à bulles [fr], 2010 ISBN 978-2-84953-093-1
• Sorcellerie et dépendances, Dupuis, 2010 ISBN 978-2800148014
• N'embrassez pas qui vous voulez, script by Marzena Sowa, Dupuis, 2013 ISBN 9782800158273
• La Lesbienne invisible, script by Murielle Magellan, based on the show by Océanerosemarie, Delcourt, 2013 ISBN 978-2-7560-4010-3
• Glenn Gould, une vie à contretemps, Dargaud, 2015 ISBN 978-2-205-07090-3
• Pygmalion, freely inspired by the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Arènes BD in partnership with France Musique, 2018 ISBN 978-2-352-04748-3
• Tom Thomson, esquisses d'un printemps, Dargaud, 2019 ISBN 978-2-205-07609-7
• Chroniques de San Francisco, script by Isabelle Bauthian, Éditions Steinkis [fr], 2020 ISBN 978-2-368-46359-8
• Grand silence, script by Théa Rojzman, Glénat Editions 2021 ISBN 978-2-344-04105-5

Children's albums

• Series Un drôle d'ange gardien, script by Denis-Pierre Filippi [fr], Delcourt
  1. Un drôle d'ange gardien, 1998 ISBN 2-84055-273-6
  2. Un zoo à New York, 1999
  3. Diablo et Juliette, 2000
  4. Des vacances d'enfer, 2001
  5. Le voleur d'étoiles, 2001
  6. Le démon chinois, 2004
  7. Le Nuage-Danse, 2008
• Le jardin autre monde, script by Denis-Pierre Filippi, Delcourt, 2006
• Les Petits chats carrés : Petitchat et la lune, with Myriam Revel, Carabas jeunesse 2007 ISBN 9782351002568
• Un amour de pou, text by Gudule, Glénat, 2007 ISBN 9782723457781
• 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^[14]
• 2022: Prix des lycées at the Angoulême International Comics Festival with Théa Rojzman (script) for Grand silence^[18]
• 2022: Special Mention Prize, Jury œcuménique de la bande dessinée [fr] for Grand Silence^[20]
• 2022: Prix étudiant de la BD politique [fr]-LCP for Grand Silence^[21]