Gisèle Lagacé

Canadian cartoonist

Gisèle Lagacé
Lagacé at the Montreal Comiccon, 2016.
Born	(1970-06-16) June 16, 1970 (age 53) New Brunswick, Canada
Area(s)	Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker, Editor, Publisher
Notable works	Ménage à 3 Penny & Aggie Eerie Cuties Magick Chicks Cool Cat Studio Archie
Collaborators	David Lumsdon
Awards	2001 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards - Best Art 2002 Kimberly Yale Award - Best New Talent 2018 Joe Shuster Award - Webcomics Creator
http://giselelagace.wix.com/giselelagace

Gisèle Lagacé (born June 16, 1970, in New Brunswick, Canada) is a Canadian comics writer and artist, writer and illustrator of webcomics.^[1] She is best known for her series Ménage à 3.^[2]

Biography

She was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, Canada, and presently (as of 2015^[update]) lives there. She attended high school at l'ESN in Bathurst, New Brunswick, and studied visual arts for a year at Université de Moncton before graduating in graphic design from La Cité collégiale in Ottawa.^[1]

She was a bassist for the Quebec all-female band Barbarella in the early 1990s, then worked as a graphic designer for Avenue Design Group in Ottawa laying out advertisements and designing logos.^[1]

Works

In 2000, she wrote and illustrated the webcomic Cool Cat Studio which quickly became popular in 2001 and won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for best art.^[3] That led to the 2002 co-winning of the Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent.^[4]

Cool Cat went on hiatus at the end of 2001 and returned in 2007 with co-writer T Campbell to conclude in late 2008.

From 2004 to 2009, she worked with writer T Campbell to co-create the Penny and Aggie series about the rivalry of two girls and their friends. Lagacé was nominated in the 2007 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for Outstanding Romantic Comic.^[5]

In 2008, she created with writer David Lumsdon^[6] the series strip Ménage à 3 (meaning "threesome" or "love triangle") which tells the story of Gary, a thirtyish Montrealite, and friends. The strip is consistently in the top 50 rated webcomics and ongoing as of 2018^[update]. Lagacé was also nominated for the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Webcomics Creator. Lagacé was invited to the 2008 Anime Festival in Montreal.^[7] In 2018, Ménage à 3 won the Joe Shuster Award for "Webcomics Creator".^[8]

In 2009, she created the series Eerie Cuties which tells the story of high school monsters. David Lumsdon later joined as co-writer.^[9]

In January 2013, she created a spinoff of Ménage à 3, called Sticky Dilly Buns, which tells the story of Dillon, a gay actor.

Lagacé has penciled some Archie Comics, including #635, #636, #639, and #646.^[1] She illustrated the Ramones-themed one-shot, Archie Meets Ramones, in 2016.^[10]

She drew a Betty Boop mini series for Dynamite Entertainment in 2016,^[11] and issues #24-26 of Jem and the Holograms from IDW Publishing.^[12]^[13]^[14] She illustrated the covers of the Marvel Comics series Unbelievable Gwenpool for issues #12 and #13 from February to March 2015, and is the artist of Exorsisters, an ongoing series from Image Comics written by Ian Boothby.^[15]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Gisèle Lagacé Comic Artist: About me". Gisèle Lagacé. March 10, 2015. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
^ "Gisèle Lagacé".
^ "2001 Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 2009-12-31.
^ "The Lulu Award Winners 1997-2008". Friends of Lulu. 2008. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009.
^ "The 2007 Cartoonist's Choice Awards". Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
^ "About Pixie Trix Comix". Retrieved 2015-03-10.
^ "Invités Webcomic". Retrieved 2015-03-10.
^ Boyd, Kevin A. (2018-09-05). "The 2018 Joe Shuster Award Winners". joeshusterawards.com.
^ "About Eerie Cuties". Retrieved 2015-03-10.
^ Freligh, Tai (October 5, 2016). "Comic Book Review – Archie Meets Ramones #1". Flickering Myth. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
^ Sims, Chris (2016-07-18). "Dynamite Announces 'Betty Boop' From Langridge And Lagacé". ComicsAlliance.
^ "Exclusive Preview: They're Hawaii Bound in Jem and the Holograms #24 - CBR". Comic Book Resources. 2017-03-25.
^ Shiach, Kieran (2017-03-31). "Jerrica And Rio Talk It Out In 'Jem And The Holograms' #25". ComicsAlliance.
^ Ching, Albert (2017-01-25). "IDW's Jem and the Holograms Takes a Bow in April, But an Encore is Planned - CBR". Comic Book Resources.
^ Johnston, Rich (July 24, 2018). "Image Comics Launches Blackbird, Dead Rabbit, Errand Boys, Exorsisters, Infinite Dark, Jook Joint, Murder Falcon, Norroway in October 2018 Solicits". Bleeding Cool.