Audrey Spiry

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]

Audrey Spiry
Blonde woman wearing a yellow sweater and navy blue knit hat
Audrey Spiry during Quai des Bulles (Saint-Malo, 27 October 2012)
Born17 May 1983 (1983-05-17) (age 40)
France
Area(s)
Notable works
L'Expédition
AwardsPrix Sorcières

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 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 (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 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. 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. 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. 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. Fabien Deglise, "L'ACBD dévoile les finalistes pour son Grand Prix de bande dessinée 2013", Le Devoir, 27 November 2012.
  6. "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.it (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. Landrot, Marine (2 May 2022). "L'Expédition". telerama.fr (in French). Retrieved 2 July 2023 – via archive.wikiwix.com.
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