Maëlle Reat

Born in 2000 in Lyon, she lives in Paris. 

She has been drawing "since she was old enough to hold a pencil" according to her mother. She observed the world around her with a certain voyeurism, and became fascinated by the complexity of the interactions between individuals, which led her to keep numerous notebooks of observations that she accumulated until high school. After studying art in Paris, she was spotted by various publishers, but it was with Virages graphiques that she decided to publish her first comic book, Comme une grande, which appeared in March 2022. 

She has recently been doing press illustrations for the magazine La Déferlante and is currently preparing the drawings for a future sociological reference book on youth to be published by La découverte, as well as an autobiographical comic book for Exemplaire.