Audrey Spiry

Audrey Spiry
Blonde woman wearing a yellow sweater and navy blue knit hat
Audrey Spiry during Quai des Bulles [fr] (Saint-Malo, 27 October 2012)
Born17 May 1983 (1983-05-17) (age 41)
France
Area(s)
Notable works
L'Expédition
AwardsPrix Sorcières

Audrey Spiry (born 17 May 1983) 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 (2023). She is a member of Collective of female comics creators against sexism and works in animation.[1]

Biography

Audrey Spiry's father was a magician.[1] She first studied design at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, before enrolling at the École des métiers du cinéma d'animation [fr] and finally, at the School of Beaux-Arts.[2]

Her first comic strip album, En silence, (Casterman, 2012) took her two and a half years to complete.[1] The work, drawn with "bright colors treated with the digital palette with a gouache effect", concerns characters who spend a day of canyoning.[3] The album was one of the five finalists for the Prix de la BD du Point [fr] (2012)[4] and the Grand Prix de la critique (2013).[5] The work was favorably received in several media[6][7][8] and was translated into Italian in 2016.[9]

Spiry participates in the collective work Les Gens normaux, paroles lesbiennes gay bi trans (Casterman), directed by Hubert Boulard and containing testimonials and reference texts; the book was published in 2013.[10] Subsequently, Spiry illustrated children's books.[11] Spiry drew Lotte, fille pirate, on a screenplay by Sandrine Bonini; it appeared in Éditions Sarbacane [fr] in 2014.[12] With the same screenwriter, she created Tempête (2015).[13]

In 2022, she illustrated the children's book L'Expédition, based on a text by Stéphane Servant [fr]. The work won the Prix Sorcières 2023,[14] in the Carrément Beau Maxi category.

Awards and honours

  • 2012, Finalist of the "Prix de la BD du Point", for En silence[4]
  • 2013, Finalist for the Prix de la critique, for En Silence[5]
  • 2023, Prix Sorcières, category Carrément Beau Maxi, for L’expédition, text by Stéphane Servant[14]

Selected works

Bande dessinée

  • En silence,[6] text, drawing, and colors, Casterman, collection KSTR, 2012 (ISBN 978-2-203-03272-9); translated into Italian by Elisabetta Tramacere for Diabolo Edizioni, 2016.
  • In fine : résidence du 15 septembre au 15 octobre 2020, confinement 2, text and drawing, Editions of the Parc naturel régional de la Narbonnaise en Méditerranée, 2021

Drawing

  • Lotte, fille pirate, text by Sandrine Bonini, Sarbacane, 2014 (ISBN 978-2-84865-702-8)
  • Tempête, text by Sandrine Bonini, Sarbacane, 2015 (ISBN 978-2-84865-804-9)
  • En ce temps-là, text by Gaia Guasti, Éditions Thierry Magnier, collection “Les Décadrés” 2016 (ISBN 978-2-36474-909-2)
  • L'Expédition, text by Stéphane Servant, Thierry Magnier editions, 2022

References

  1. ^ a b c Missia Dio, Christian (10 September 2012). "Audrey Spiry ("En Silence") : « Avoir un projet commun est un élément déterminant dans la réussite d'un couple »". ActuaBD (in French). Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Les métiers de la BD. Les métiers de la bande dessinée, de l'animation et du jeu vidéo", Télérama, 1 December 2012.
  3. ^ Taugis, David (7 July 2012). ""En Silence - Par Audrey Spiry - Kstr"" (in French). Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  4. ^ a b Brethes, Romain (25 October 2012). "Les cinq autres finalistes du Prix de la BD du "Point"". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  5. ^ a b Fabien Deglise, "L'ACBD dévoile les finalistes pour son Grand Prix de bande dessinée 2013", Le Devoir, 27 November 2012.
  6. ^ a b "En silence : la critique Télérama". www.telerama.fr (in French). Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  7. ^ Boussin, O. (17 July 2012). "En silence". www.bdgest.com (in French). Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  8. ^ Nicolas Witczak, "BD: En Silence d'Audrey Spiry", Moustique, 26 June 2012 (French language)
  9. ^ Santoro, Piero (11 January 2017). "Alla ricerca di un sé autentico, ma banale: In Silenzio di Audrey Spiry". Fumettologica (in French). Retrieved 2 July 2023 – via archive.wikiwix.com.
  10. ^ Detournay, Charles-Louis (7 November 2013). "LGBT - La bande dessinée proclame le droit à l'indifférence". actuabd.com (in French). Retrieved 2 July 2023 – via archive.wikiwix.com.
  11. ^ "Rêves d'Océans. Audrey Spiry, côté mer". letelegramme.fr (in French). 13 June 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2023 – via archive.wikiwix.com.
  12. ^ Marine Landrot, "Lotte fille pirate, Sandrine Bonini et Audrey Spiry", Télérama, 31 May 2014. (French language)
  13. ^ M. B., "Une Tempête de couleurs aux dessins poétiques", Le Parisien, 3 December 2015. (in French)
  14. ^ a b Landrot, Marine (2 May 2022). "L'Expédition". telerama.fr (in French). Retrieved 2 July 2023 – via archive.wikiwix.com.