2024 – À la Mère de Famille x Anouk Ricard
As discreet as she is talented, the artist was born in 1970 in the South of France. Graduating from the Arts-Déco in Strasbourg in 1995, she began her career publishing in the youth press. It was in 2004 that she truly launched herself into the world of comics withAnna et Froga, a humorous youth series project intended for the magazine Capsule Cosmique,which has since been adapted into an animated series,Anna et ses amis. At the same time, she works in illustration for the press and youth publishing, as well as for painting/drawing exhibitions and micro-publishing journals.
In 2012, she won the Libération readers' comics award and the Best French-Language Comic Book Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for her albumCoucous Bouzon.In 2023, she won the Angoulême Festival's Special Jury Prize for her albumAniman,freely inspired by the 1980s American TV seriesManimal, featuring Francis, aka Animan, and his frog wife Fabienne. Anouk Ricard shines brilliantly in these multiple fields and shows withher inimitable bold stylethat one can make children's books that appeal to adults, as well as adult books that resemble children's tales. In this way, she transcends genres, making absurd humor and extravagant, even wacky, situations the guiding thread of her creations.
2023 – À la Mère de Famille x Catherine Meurisse
Born in 1980, after studying modern literature, Catherine Meurisse studied at the Estienne School of Graphic Arts and then at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
In 2001, because she won first prize in a school press drawing competition, the team at Charlie Hebdo welcomed her. The newspaper Les Echos hired her at the same time, allowing the young cartoonist to walk a tightrope. She caught the satirical drawing bug. At the age of 25, Charlie Hebdo hired her for good; she worked there for twelve years as a reporter-cartoonist and caricaturist. By her side were the fiercest press cartoonists: Cabu, Wolinski, Charb, Luz, Riss, Tignous, Honoré, Jul, Willem. Armed with the lessons of these rebels, she imposed her spontaneous style in many newspapers (Le Monde, Libération, Les Échos, L’Obs, Télérama, Causette...) and simultaneously worked as an illustrator for youth publications, in magazines (Okapi, Astrapi...) as well as publishing houses (Bayard, Gallimard jeunesse, Nathan...). Her roles as a caricaturist and illustrator quickly added the role of comic book author.
2022 – À la Mère de Famille x Jean Jullien
Jean Jullien (born in 1983) is a French graphic designer who lives and works in Paris. Originally from Nantes, he graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2008 and the Royal College of Art in 2010. Jean Jullien's creative palette extends from illustration, photography, and video to costumes, installations, books, posters, clothing – and even skateboards. He has exhibited his work around the world, notably in museums and galleries in Paris, London, Brussels, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, and Singapore.
His work appears in the New York Times, the New Yorker, National Geographic, SZ Magazin, Télérama, etc. He has collaborated with Beams, RCA Records, The Connaught, colette, Amnesty International, Le Coq Sportif, Jardin des Plantes (Nantes), Hotel Amour, Champion USA, Salomon, and Petit Bateau, among other international brands. His first retrospective monograph was published by Phaidon Press in 2022.
2021 – À la Mère de Famille Advent Calendar x Pénélope Bagieu
Pénélope Bagieu was born in 1982 in Paris. After studying at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and then at Central Saint Martins in London, she created "Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante" in 2007, a drawn blog where she showcased the daily life of a young Parisian with humor and grace that struck a chord. Her success quickly extended to bookstores.
She imagined the adventures of Joséphine, drew for the press and advertising. She published her first long narrative with Cadavre exquis in 2010, then her first biography with California Dreamin’ (Harvey Award 2018). In 2016, the feminist dimension of her work took on new importance with the publication of portraits of women under the title Culottées. The success was resounding. Translated into twenty languages and crowned with an Eisner Award in 2019, the two volumes of Culottées were also adapted into an animated version by France TV. In 2020, the author spoke to children by brilliantly revisiting Roald Dahl's novel A Wrinkle in Time.
2020 – À la Mère de Famille x Chris Ware
Chris Ware is the author of Jimmy Corrigan – the Smartest Kid on Earth, winner of the Guardian award in 2000, and Building Stories, selected in 2012 by the New York Times and Time Magazine as one of the ten best works of fiction. He has produced more than twenty covers for The New Yorker magazine and regularly creates press drawings. His work has been exhibited at the MoCa in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York or the Galerie Martel in Paris. He participated in the PBS series Art in the Twenty-First Century at the end of 2016 and published a self-titled monograph with Rizzoli in 2017. Rusty Brown, Part 1 was released in 2019 and was selected as one of the 100 best books of the year by the New York Times.
2019 – À la Mère de Famille x Zeina Abirached
Zeina Abirached is an author and illustrator, born in Beirut in 1981 in the heart of the Lebanese Civil War. She studied graphic design at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and then joined the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2004 to specialize in comics to tell and illustrate her daily life as a child of war. She mainly uses black and white, which allows her to strip down her drawing and develop motifs that become her signature.
In 2002, her book Catharsis won first prize at the Beirut Comics Festival. Zeina was also present in the official selection of the Angoulême Festival in 2008 with her book Mourir, Partir, Revenir : le Jeu des Hirondelles and then in 2016 with Le Piano oriental.
In 2017, Zeina Abirached was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
2018 – À la Mère de Famille x Octave Marsal
Octave Marsal is a French visual artist born in 1990. In 2017 he graduated from the Royal College of Art (London, UK), Master of Art. In 2014 he graduated from the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London), BA(Hons) Fine Art – 2D. Nominated for the Nova Award Creative Talent 2014 Lowe and partners from Central Saint Martins College for the work Monumentale LAB with Théo de Gueltzl (2 nominees in the BA Fine Art section). In his protean work (sculpture, engraving, installation, video animation, performance), drawing is his preferred medium. Octave Marsal produces masterful drawings on the most varied supports in which architectural eras and motifs intertwine and overlap.
2017 – À la Mère de Famille x Colette Sempe
Jean-Jacques Sempé, known as Sempé, was born in 1932 near Bordeaux. He began drawing at age 12 and managed to place a few drawings in the press while working as a bicycle delivery man.
A first project with René Goscinny came to life in 1954 in the form of a comic strip published every week in the press, drawing largely on Sempé's childhood memories. Then between 1960 and 1964 came the five albums of Petit Nicolas, written by Goscinny and illustrated by Sempé. At the same time as writing the adventures of Petit Nicolas, Sempé collaborated as an illustrator in more than fifty press titles (including Paris Match, L’Express, Nouvel Observateur, and later Télérama). In 1978, he drew the cover of the famous magazine The New Yorker for the first time, which would regularly call on his talents.
2017 – À la Mère de Famille x Sempe
Jean-Jacques Sempé, known as Sempé, was born in 1932 near Bordeaux. He began drawing at age 12 and managed to place a few drawings in the press while working as a bicycle delivery man. A first project with René Goscinny came to life in 1954 in the form of a comic strip published every week in the press, drawing largely on Sempé's childhood memories. Then between 1960 and 1964 came the five albums of Petit Nicolas, written by Goscinny and illustrated by Sempé. At the same time as writing the adventures of Petit Nicolas, Sempé collaborated as an illustrator in more than fifty press titles (including Paris Match, L’Express, Nouvel Observateur, and later Télérama). In 1978, he drew the cover of the famous magazine The New Yorker for the first time, which would regularly call on his talents.
2016 – À la Mère de Famille x SoMe
Bertrand de Langeron, alias SoMe, born in 1980, is a French graphic designer from the Ed Banger Records label and the Japanese brand Revolver. Famous for creating the music video for Justice's D.A.N.C.E., SoME notably received an MTV Music Award for it. He also created numerous t-shirts with flashy logos, a music video for Kanye West, "The Good Life" and "Never Be Alone" by Justice. SoMe released a remix of Klaxons in 2007 called "Golden Skans To Interzone" which appeared on the Ed Rec Vol. 2 compilation. In 2008 on the Ed Rec Vol. 3 compilation appeared the track "Decalcomania" produced by SoMe.
2016 – À la Mère de Famille x Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers is a British author and illustrator. He is the author and illustrator of several works of children's literature. He has won several awards, and twice the Irish Children's Book of the Irish Book Awards, in 2007 and 2012. In 2017, he won the prestigious Fiction Prize of the Bologna International Children's Book Fair1, for the work A Child of Books (L’Enfant des livres) which he created with Sam Winston.
2015 – À la Mère de Famille x Jeremyville
Jeremyville is a contemporary artist, designer and author originally from Australia and living in New York. Jeremyville's work can be found in many public and private collections. He has been exhibited in museums and artistic and cultural venues known around the world such as the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Andy Warhol Museum, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, 798 Arts District in Beijing, the Madre Museum in Naples, the Bunkamura Gallery in Tokyo, and the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Jeremyville counts, among others, the New York Times, Mercedes-Benz, Lacoste, Apple, Google, Adidas among his many clients and has collaborated with cultural partners such as the Brooklyn Museum, Colette, Cappellini...
2015 – À la Mère de Famille x Nathalie Lete
Illustration, textile, painting: Nathalie Lété is a jack-of-all-trades. Nathalie graduated from the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris and from the Beaux-Arts in lithography. Her preferred field is textiles, but she is also known for her children's book illustrations. She also publishes very limited edition sculptures and jewelry. Mushroom-shaped relief rugs, crochet butterflies, characters made of meat pieces and wallpaper representing forest animals are some of the elements that make up Nathalie Lété's universe.
2014 – À la Mère de Famille x Darcel
Darcel is an artist of Australian origin based in New York. His illustrated blog, www.darceldisappoints.com, references one after another the moments of disappointment or joy that this desperate character encounters throughout his days. He has collaborated for many years with colette in Paris.
2014 – À la Mère de Famille x Mesdemoiselles
Aurélie Castex is a French illustrator. She worked first as a painter before graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. She created the duo Mesdemoiselles with her friend Claire Laude, with whom she will work together for several years. In 2015, Aurélie set out alone on new drawn adventures favoring ink drawing, screen printing, and watercolor. Regular cartoonist for the magazine Elle, Parisien Week-end, and "Les 4 saisons du Grand Palais". Aurélie has also contributed to the press to issues of Vogue Japan, Velvet Italia, Common & Sense, Flaunt, Pélerin Magazine or GQ.
2013 – À la Mère de Famille x Kévin Lyons
Kevin Lyons is a creative director, designer, illustrator and typographer living in Brooklyn, New York. Recently, Kevin was a partner and creative director of the "anti-agency" ANOMALY in New York. Before that Kevin was creative at Nike, Design Director at Stussy, artistic director at Girl Skateboards and Tokion Magazine. He is exhibited internationally and published around the world. He is the founder of the label Natural Born.
2013 – À la Mère de Famille x Alice Charbin
Alice Charbin is a French illustrator who graduated in graphic design and illustration from the Camberwell College of Arts in London. She has illustrated around forty children's books (Gallimard, l’École des Loisirs, Nathan, Bayard, le Sorbier...), as well as numerous covers for Éditions du Dilettante. She also works in the press, as a poster designer for the theatre, for the Hermès house, and took part in the 2010 anniversary edition of the Petit Larousse by illustrating words from the French language.
