Gisele Lagace

Gisele Lagace (French: Gisèle Lagacé) is a writer and illustrator of webcomics.

She was born June 16, 1970^[1] in New Brunswick, Canada, and presently (as of 2015) lives there. She attended high school at l'ESN in Bathurst, New Brunswick, and studied visual arts for a year at Université de Moncton before graduating in graphic design from La Cité collégiale in Ottawa.^[1]

She was a bassist for the Quebec all-girl band Barbarella in the early 1990s, then worked as a graphic designer for Avenue Design Group in Ottawa laying out advertisements and designing logos.^[1]

Works

In 2000, she wrote and illustrated the webcomic Cool Cat Studio which quickly became popular in 2001 and won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for best art.^[2] That led to the 2002 co-winning of the Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent.^[3] Cool Cat went on hiatus at the end of 2001 and returned in 2007 with co-writer T Campbell to conclude in late 2008.

From 2004 to 2009, she worked with writer T Campbell to co-create the Penny and Aggie series about the rivalry of two girls and their friends. Lagace was nominated in the 2007 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for Outstanding Romantic Comic.^[4]

In 2008, she created with writer David Lumsdon^[5] the series strip Ménage à 3 (meaning "threesome" or "love triangle") which tells the story of Gary, a thirtyish Montrealite, and friends. The strip is consistently in the top 50 rated webcomics and ongoing as of 2015. Lagace was also nominated for the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Webcomics Creator. Lagace was invited to the 2008 Anime Festival in Montreal.^[6]

In 2009, she created the series Eerie Cuties which tells the story of high school monsters. David Lumsdon later joined as co-writer.^[7]

In January 2013, she created a spinoff of Ménage à 3, called Sticky Dilly Buns, which tells the story of Dillon, a gay actor.

Lagace has penciled some Archie Comics, including #635, #636, #639, and #646.^[1]

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