{{Short description|Taiwanese-born French cartoonist and writer}} {{Infobox comics creator | name = | image = Johanna Schipper 20060916 Festival Delcourt (cropped 2023).jpg | caption = Johanna Schipper at the 2006 Festival Delcourt | birth_name = Johanna Schipper | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1967}} | birth_place = Changhua, Taiwan | nationality = French | nationality2 = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | alias = Johanna | notable works = | collaborators = | awards = Prix Artémisia | cartoonist = y | artist = y | colorist = y }} '''Johanna Schipper''' (born 1967), known by the pen name '''Johanna''' and more rarely as '''Nina''', is a Taiwanese-born French ''bande dessinée'' comic book cartoonist, short story writer, and educator of Dutch heritage. She is a laureate of the 2008 {{ill|Prix Artémisia|fr}} for women's comics.
==Early life and education== She was born in 1967 in Taiwan,<ref name="1:frwp">{{cite news |last1=Pasamonik |first1=Didier |title=Johanna, Prix Artémisia 2008 de la bande dessinée féminine |url=https://www.actuabd.com/Johanna-Prix-Artemisia-2008-de-la-bande-dessinee-feminine |access-date=27 March 2023 |work=ActuaBD |date=10 January 2008 |language=fr}}</ref> to a Dutch mother and a sinologist father.<ref name="2:frwp">{{cite book | editor-first1 = Béatrice |editor-last1=Didier | editor-first2 = Antoinette |editor-last2=Fouque | editor-first3 = Mireille |editor-last3=Calle-Gruber | year = 2013 | title = Le dictionnaire universel des créatrices: P à Z | publisher = Des femmes Antoinette Fouque |chapter=Johanna (Johanna Schipper, dite) (Taïwan 1967), by Camilla Patruno | page =2181 |isbn=978-2-7210-0630-1 |language=fr | oclc = 864388333 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HStVzgEACAAJ}}</ref> She lived there until the age of three and a half, and then followed her parents to the Netherlands and then to France, where the Schipper family settled in 1974.<ref name="3:frwp">{{cite web |title=Johanna - Johanna Schipper (b. 1967, Taiwan) |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/johanna.htm |website=lambiek.net |access-date=27 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
After graduating from high school, she studied comics at the {{ill|École européenne supérieure de l'image|fr}} (ÉESI) (European School of Image) in Angoulême.<ref name="1:frwp" />
==Career== She began working as a colorist, notably with {{ill|Emmanuel Moynot|fr}}<ref name="3:frwp" /> on the series {{lang|fr|Le Temps des bombes}} published in the early 1990s and with {{ill|Farid Boudjellal|fr}} on the album {{lang|fr|Le Beurgeois}} published in 1997.
From 1993 until 2000, she published short stories for fanzines and illustrations for young people. In 1999, she resumed the adventures of Nana, the heroine of {{lang|fr|Les Phosfées}}, five of which were published in black and white in the French comic magazines ''Le Lézard'', ''PLG'', or ''Ogoun!'' between 1995 and 1997,<ref name="3:frwp" /> and she reproduced them in color in the youth collection of Delcourt, dedicating these albums to the universe of dreams.<ref name="2:frwp" />
Moving away from the field of comics for youth, she proposed an album largely autobiographical, {{lang|fr|Née quelque part}}, published in 2004 (later translated into Chinese), where she returned to the places of her childhood in Taiwan,<ref name="2:frwp" /><ref name="4:frwp">{{cite book |language=fr | editor-first1 = Pascal |editor-last1=Lorot | year = 2007 | title = Un monde chinois en transition | publisher = Choiseul Editions | pages =93–95 | isbn = 978-2-916722-07-8 | oclc = 176928959 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UPied8n5-6MC |chapter=Ilha Formosa! by Paul de Fombelle}}</ref>
This was followed in 2006 by {{lang|fr|Une par une}} and in 2007 by {{lang|fr|Nos âmes sauvages}}, which won the 2008 Prix Artémisia for women's comics.<ref name="1:frwp" /> In the early 2010s, she published a diptych, {{lang|fr|Le Printemps refleurira}}.<ref name="2:frwp" />
Since 2010, Schipper has been teaching at the ÉESI in Angoulême5.<ref name="5:frwp">{{cite web |title=Johanna SCHIPPER |url=https://www.eesi.eu/site/spip.php?article633 |website=www.eesi.eu |access-date=27 March 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
==Awards== * 2008, Artémisia Prize for the female comic strip for ''Nos âmes sauvages''<ref name="1:frwp" />
== Selected works == * ''Les Phosfées'', Delcourt, coll. "Jeunesse", 3 vol., 2000–2002. * ''Née quelque part'', Delcourt, coll. "Mirages", 2004 {{ISBN|2-84789-043-2}} * ''Une par une'', Éditions de l'an 2, coll. "Traits féminins", 2005 (writing as "Nina") {{ISBN|2-84856-025-8}} *:Expanded reissue of a story and under the name "Johanna", La Boîte à bulles, 2010 {{ISBN|978-2-84953-111-2}}. * ''Les Six Cygnes'' (according to the tale of the brothers Grimm), Delcourt, coll. "Jeunesse", 2006 * ''Nos âmes sauvages'', Futuropolis, 2007 {{ISBN|978-2-7548-0073-0}}. Prix Artémisia 2008. * ''Le printemps refleurira'', Futuropolis, 2 vol., 2010 {{ISBN|978-2-7548-0202-4}}
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