Aude Massot | |
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![]() Aude Massot at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (2017) | |
Born | 27 September 1983 Les Lilas, France | (age 40)
Alma mater | Institut Saint-Luc |
Notable work | Une saison à l'ONU, au cœur de la diplomatie mondiale |
Movement | Collective of female comics creators against sexism |
Awards | Shortlisted, France Info Prize (2019) |
Website | odemasso.ultra-book.com/accueil |
Aude Massot (born 27 September 1983, Les Lilas) is a French bande dessinée comic book artist. She is a member of the Collective of female comics creators against sexism. Her non-fiction comics book with Karim Lebhour, Une saison à l'ONU, au cœur de la diplomatie mondiale (2018) was shortlisted for the France Info Prize (2019).
Aude Massot studied for four years at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels, Belgium until 2006.[1]
She then worked in Paris in advertising and animation. In 2009, she published her first album, Chronique d'une chair grillée (published by Les Enfants Rouges), which she drew on a script by Fabien Bertrand containing a "dark and cynical" narrative.[2] With the same writer, she delivered La sulfureuse épopée des bandits Miki et Magda in 2011 and 2013, which, under a humorous angle, tells the story of a "couple of mythical robbers".[3]
Next, Massot teamed up with Édouard Bourré-Guilbert and Pauline Bardin, who wrote the script for Massot's humorous Québec Land, published in 2014, which focuses on two young French expatriates.[4] Originally from Le Mans, Bourré-Guilbert and Bardin moved to Montreal temporarily in 2011 and ran a column. They got in touch with Massot, who also spent time in Montreal.[5] The episodes were broadcast for free on Delitoon for several months and met with some success before Éditions Sarbacane proposed a publication.[5]
By herself, Massot undertakes non-fiction comics for SAMU Social, published by Steinkis Groupe in 2017, Chronique du 115, une histoire du Samu social.[6] Inspired by the stories of a social worker, she meets and accompanies Xavier Emmanuelli while he does his work within SAMU Social.[7]
She continued in the same documentary vein by collaborating with Karim Lebhour, Radio France Internationale's UN correspondent from 2010 to 2014, for a comic book about the United Nations, Une saison à l'ONU, au cœur de la diplomatie mondiale (2018).[8] The book was reviewed by various media, such as Le Monde,[8] France Inter,[9] La Croix,[10] ActuaBD ,[11] BoDoï ,[12] BD Gest' ,[13] and Le Petit Journal.[14] The album was shortlisted for the France Info Prize (2019).[15]