Anne Simon (born 21 July 1980) is a French bande dessinée author and illustrator. In 2004, she received the Young Talent prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
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Biography
Anne Simon was born in 1980, in La Crèche, Deux-Sèvres, France.
She studied fine arts at the École supérieure de l'image in Angoulême and decorative arts at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. She participated in the creation of the magazine Dopututto and the Misma Editions where she developed her series Les Contes du Marylène, which includes La Geste d'Aglaé, Cixitite Impératrice, and Boris l'Enfant Patate.
She published her first comic strip, Perséphone aux enfers (Persephone in the Underworld) (Michel Lagarde) in 2006. She published three illustrated graphic biographies at Dargaud: Freud, Marx, and Einstein in collaboration with the screenwriter Corinne Maier. Simon also works as an illustrator for the press and children's publishing. In 2020, volume 4 of Gousse & Gigot was published and the album was selected for the 2021 Angoulême International Comics Festival.
Awards and honours
First winner of the Young Talents competition at the 2004 Angoulême International Comics Festival.