Catherine Meurisse

Catherine Meurisse Catherine Meurisse was born in 1980. After studying modern literature, she went on to study at the École Estienne and then at the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris. Catherine Meurisse is a draughtswoman, author, cartoonist, reporter and illustrator of children's books. Sharpening her eye and her line for fifteen years in numerous press titles ('Le Monde', 'Libération', 'Les Echos', 'L'Obs'...) and more particularly at 'Charlie Hebdo', she produces comic strips where the spirit of seriousness has no place. After "Mes Hommes de lettres", "Le Pont des arts" (Sarbacane), "Moderne Olympia" (Futuropolis) and "Drôles de femmes" (Dargaud, with Julie Birmant), she published in 2016 "La Légèreté", a moving account of her return to life, drawing and memory, after the attack on 'Charlie Hebdo' which she escaped. After the cheeky "Scènes de la vie hormonale" (Scenes of hormonal life), "Les Grands Espaces" (Dargaud) was published, an evocation of her childhood in the countryside, in which tasty memories and an aesthetic and political awareness of the rural landscape are combined. In 2019, she will publish "Delacroix", a very personal graphic adaptation of the memoirs of Alexandre Dumas, a great friend of the painter Eugène Delacroix. Her new album, "La Jeune Femme et la Mer" (The Young Woman and the Sea) questions the place of Man in nature and the use of art to capture disappearing landscapes. In 2020, the year in which a major retrospective exhibition is dedicated to her at the BPI of the Centre Pompidou, Catherine Meurisse becomes the first comic book author to be a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Dargaud, 2021