To mark the school's 60th anniversary, GOBELINS Alumni is organizing an exhibition dedicated to women in comics.
The event highlights the work of five talented female authors and cartoonists who have graduated from GOBELINS. Each of them has been invited to share a selection of comic strips, representative of their style and bibliography.
Today, women illustrators represent only 12% of published illustrators. This exhibition is part of GOBELINS Paris' commitment to promoting female talent in the creative and cultural industries, and to combating gender inequality and discrimination.
The exhibition will run from Monday March 10 to Friday April 3, 2025, with free access.
Guest artists:
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A 2018 graduate of the Master in Character Animation and Animated Filmmaking, Sixtine Dano is an author and cartoonist, director, 2D animator and illustrator for children's publishing and non-profit organizations.
In 2018, she co-directed her graduation short film, "Thermostat 6", an award-winning eco-drama selected at numerous festivals.
Sixtine also leads a double life as a climate activist with several associations (Action Justice Climat, Ende Gelände, Les amis de la Terre...). On trial for demonstrating against the expansion of Roissy airport and fighting for the French government's compliance with the Paris Agreement.
In 2025, she signed her first graphic novel with Glénat, "Sibylline, chroniques d'une escort girl", accompanied by a one-minute trailer she produced in 2D animation.
In it, she shares the intimate and complex story of a student who falls into prostitution. The story is inspired by the heart-rending testimonies of real "escort girls" and "sugar babies" she met in Paris over several years.
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Graduating from the Master in Character Animation and Animated Filmmaking in 2011, Claire Fauvel began her career in animation before turning to comics, driven by the desire to tell her own stories.
She published her first comic in 2015 with Casterman, and has since published several comic albums. Her favorite themes are adolescence, art, and love, often in a contemporary context.
In 2018, her album "Catherine's War", published by Rue de Sèvres, won the youth fauve at the Angoulême festival.
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A 2015 graduate of the 3D Character Animator course, Audrey Lainé began her career as a 3D animator on the feature film "Drôles de petites Bêtes".
Spotted thanks to her student blog, she began illustrating her first graphic novel, "Moi en Double", scripted by Navie, as soon as production of the film was completed.
Since then, she has alternated between comics and animation projects. On the comics side, after this first publication, she signed three Marabulles albums ("Moi en Double", "Mal briefée', "Les Cœurs insolents") and on the animation side, she recently worked on the "Batwheels" series and on the 3rd Asterix adventures 3D feature film, "Asterix et le Royaume de Nubie" directed by Alexandre Heboyan (Animateur infographiste, class 2004).
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Carole Maurel is an author, cartoonist and animator, who graduated from the Cartoonist course in 2005. After a ten-year career in audiovisual production, she decided to devote herself to comics in 2013.
She drew and wrote "Comme chez toi", her first graphic novel for Casterman, and in 2016 signed her second solo album for La Boite à Bulles with "Luisa, Ici et là" . The same year, she drew Chloé Vollmer-lo's script for "L'Apocalypse selon Magda" for Delcourt.
The following year, still with Delcourt, she produced the comic strip "Collaboration Horizontale " with Navie (2017). At the same time, "En attendant Bojangles" was published by Steinkis, with a script by Ingrid Chabbert.
She then worked on an anticipation children's universe with "Eden", published by Rue de Sèvres and scripted by Fabrice Collin (2018, 2019). In 2021, she drew "Coming in", a moving and funny story about the quest for self, published by Payot Graphic.
Then we find her drawing "Nellie Bly" (Glénat -2021), to discover the true story of the pioneer of investigative journalism. She recently teamed up with Loïc Clément for "Merlin", a children's story published by Delcourt, and more recently, in 2023, "L'Institutrice" volumes 1 and 2 were published by Albin Michel as a designer, alongside scriptwriter and playwright Yves Lavandier.
Her latest collaboration with scriptwriter and historian Marie Bardiaux Vaiente resulted in the album "Bobigny 1972", published by Editions Glénat in January 2024, an acclaimed album which recently won the Prix des Lycées at Angoulême.
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Diane Truc, you'll find her holed up in an animation studio, charcoal-burning on a signing table or rolling around in a wrestling ring, her great passion.
Graduating from the Master in Character Animation and Animated Filmmaking in 2017, she worked as a 2D animator before embarking on a career as a webtoon author, a new format of episodic comic strips (or "scrolling strips") on smartphones, which originated in Korea.
After winning a competition with her scriptwriter Rutile, she transformed herself into a virtual mangaka and created the webtoon "Colossale", which two years later appeared in 5 print volumes published by Jungle.
Today, she navigates between the worlds of animation, print publishing and gyms, and has no intention of stopping there.
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Practical information:
📅 Exhibition Monday March 10th to Friday April 3rd 2025
📍 Galerie rez-de-chaussée - free access
GOBELINS Paris - Campus Saint Marcel
73 Boulevard Saint-Marcel 75013 Paris
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