Yvette Lapointe
{{Short description|Canadian designer and comics creator}}
{{Infobox comics creator
| image = Yvette_Lapointe.png
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| birth_date = 19 August 1912
| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| death_date = 5 September 1994
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| area = {{hlist|designer|comics creator|illustrator}}
| notable works = Les Petits Espiègles
| awards = Prix Albert-Chartier
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Yvette Lapointe (19 August 1912 – 5 September 1994) was a designer, known as a pioneer of Quebec comics, who made a career in comics and illustration from 1932 to 1943, then retired from publishing. She remains the first Quebec female comic book author, even though somewhat forgotten.
Biography
Yvette Lapointe was born 19 August 1912 in Montreal.{{cite web |title=Yvette Lapointe |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lapointe_yvette.htm |website=lambiek.net |access-date=9 June 2023 |language=en}} In 1932, she launched herself into comics and illustration, drawing on the relations between men and women and everyday life in the periodical L'Illustration, where she contributed daily to the strip {{lang|fr|Pourquoi?}}.{{cite book |last1=Viau |first1=Michel |title=BDQ: Histoire de la Bande Dessinée Au Québec |date=April 2014 |publisher=Mém9ire |isbn=978-2-9814152-2-6 |page=101 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NL-7oAEACAAJ |access-date=9 June 2023 |language=fr}} A year later, she began her most famous series in the pages of La Patrie: {{lang|fr|Les Petits Espiègles}}, whose heroes are "two rascals", Réal and his sister Mimi Pistache. The series ran from May to August 1933. Lapointe then returned to more adult content for Le Samedi{{cite news |last1=Poirier |first1=Raymond |title=Yvette Lapointe, première femme à faire de la BD au Québec |url=https://voir.ca/raymond-poirier/2017/03/09/yvette-lapointe-premiere-femme-a-faire-de-la-bd-au-quebec/ |access-date=9 June 2023 |work=Voir.ca |date=9 March 2017 |language=fr-CA}} and La Presse. At the same time, she was an illustrator and did advertising work.{{cite news |last1=Godin |first1=Sandra |title=Les originaux d'une pionnière de la bande dessinée exposés |url=https://www.journaldequebec.com/2017/04/13/les-originaux-dune-pionniere-de-la-bande-dessinee-exposes |access-date=9 June 2023 |work=Le Journal de Québec |date=14 April 2017 |language=fr-CA}}
After her marriage in 1943, she ended her professional career and then raised four sons, all mathematicians. She died on 5 September 1994.
Legacy
In 2017, Lapointe's works were exhibited at the Quebec Francophone Comics Festival. In tribute to Lapointe's career, the Quebec Francophone Comics Festival gave the name {{lang|fr|Prix Yvette-Lapointe}} to a youth comic book prize.{{cite web |title=Prix Yvette-Lapointe |url=http://quebecbd.com/prix-yvette-lapointe/ |website=QUÉBEC BD |access-date=9 June 2023 |language=fr-CA}}
Awards
- Posthumous award of the Prix Albert-Chartier.
References
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Category:Artists from Montreal
Category:Canadian comics artists