Lucie Quéméner loosens the family knots

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

Just graduated from the Brassart Delcourt Academy, Lucie Quéméner unveils her first comic strip Tiger Balm. She has just won the France Culture BD Prize for students.

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Lucie Quéméner is a very young author. Just two years ago, she graduated from the Académie Brassart Delcourt, a Parisian school of comics. Here she is today releasing her first album. The story of a female emancipation within a family of Chinese origin in contemporary France. A family fresco of some 250 pages, in pencil, in black and white, which, just out, received the BD Prize for students of France Culture radio, created in this year for comics in France. Five albums had been selected, so it was Tiger Balm by Lucie Quéméner that was designated. It appeared at Delcourt, in the Mirages collection.

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