Christine Roche

Christine Roche an illustrator, cartoonist, and film-maker who lives and works in London.^[1] Her work has appeared in many books, as well as publications including New Society and the New Statesman.

Biography

Christine Roche has illustrated many books, both for children and adults books, and works with a number of leading publishers. She has produced animated films for Channel 4 and UNICEF and lectures at the London College of Communication^[2] and is a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art.^[3]

She was a member of the Hackney Flashers collective of feminist photographers in the 1970s.

She is author of I'm Not a Feminist But...(1985) which she made into an animated film with Marjut Rimminen.^[4]

She also directed the short animated films The Stain (1991) ^[5] viewable at the Internet Archive and Someone Must Be Trusted (1987).^[6]

She 'designed' the characters^[7] in the children's television cartoon series Treasure^[8]

Her work appears in the anthology Funny Girls - Cartooning for Equality edited by Diane Atkinson (Penguin Books 1997)^[9]

Bibliography

As author

• I'm Not a Feminist But... - Virago Press Ltd (1985) :ISBN 978-0-86068-604-0

As illustrator

• How We Play (Anita Harper) - Viking Children's Books (1979) :ISBN 978-0-7226-5481-1
• Sourcream (Jo Nesbitt, Lesley Ruda, Liz Mackie, Christine Roche) - Sheba Feminist Publishers (1980) ASIN B000U0OH90
• Sweet Freedom: Struggle for Women's Liberation (Anna Coote, Beatrix Campbell) - Picador (1982) :ISBN 978-0-330-26511-9
• A Women's History of Sex (Harriett Gilbert) - Pandora P (1987):ISBN 978-0-86358-142-7
• Abigail at the Beach (Felix Pirani) - Collins (1988) :ISBN 0-00-184237-4
• Abigail Goes Visiting (Felix Pirani) - Collins (1990) :ISBN 0-00-191368-9
• Triplets (Felix Pirani) - Viking Pr (1991) :ISBN 978-0-670-83375-7
• Pregnancy Book (Nancy Kohner, Angela Phillips) - Health Education Authority (1993) :ISBN 978-1-85448-555-7
• The Universe for Beginners (Felix Pirani) - Icon Books Ltd (1994) :ISBN 978-1-874166-06-1
• Give Your Baby a Head Start: How to Kick the Smoking Habit - Health Education Authority (1994) ISBN 978-0-7521-0016-6
• Women's Health Guide (Ann Furedi, Mary Tidyman) - Health Education Authority (1994) :ISBN 978-1-85448-992-0
• The Young Person's Guide to Saving the Planet (Bernadette Vallely, Debbie Silver) - Chivers Press (new edition 1990) :ISBN 978-0-86220-870-7
• So Young, So Sad, So Listen (Philip Graham, Carol Hughes) - Gaskell (1995) :ISBN 978-0-902241-80-0
• Pregnancy, Birth and the First Five Years (Nancy Kohner, Angela Phillips) - Health Education Authority (new edition 1995) :ISBN 978-1-85448-997-5
• Pregnancy Book: A Complete Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and the First Few Weeks with a New Baby (Nancy Kohner, Angela Phillips) - Health Education Authority (3rd revised edition 1996) :ISBN 978-0-7521-0761-5
• What Treasure Did Next (Gina Davidson) - Virago Press Ltd (1996) :ISBN 978-1-86049-114-6
• Living with a Stranger (Valerie Stillwell) - Gaskell (1997):ISBN 978-1-901242-07-2
• Religion (What's the Big Idea?) (Anita Ganeri) - Hodder Children's Books (1998) :ISBN

978-0-340-66719-4

• Nuclear Power (What's the Big Idea?) (Felix Pirani) - Hodder Children's Books (1998) :ISBN 978-0-340-69339-1
• Drugs Centre Stage – volume one (Chris Scanlan) - LittleOctopus Publishing (2006) :ISBN 978-0-9549169-1-6
• Drugs Centre Stage – volume two (Chris Scanlan) - LittleOctopus Publishing (2006) :ISBN 978-0-9549169-2-3
• Introducing the Universe (Felix Pirani) - Icon Books Ltd (new edition 2006) :ISBN 978-1-84046-761-1

Filmography

The Stain (1991) ^[1]
Someone Must Be Trusted (1987) - one of a series of 4 short animated documentaries about Women and the Law ^[10]
I'm Not a Feminist But...(1985)^[4]

References

External links

• Christine Roche at the IMDb
• Creative Match