{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Short description|French author, cartoonist, and illustrator}} {{Infobox writer | name = Oriane Lassus | image = Oriane Lassus - Atlantide 2018.jpg | caption = (2018) | birth_date = 1987 | nationality = French | alma_mater = Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts | occupation = {{hlist|author|cartoonist|illustrator}} | genre = Comics | subject = | movement = alternative literature | notable_works = ''Spongiculture'' | awards = * 2011: Blog Revelation Prize * 2020: EESI prize | signature = SignatureOrianeLassus.png | website = }} '''Oriane Lassus''' (born in 1987) is a French author and cartoonist, as well as an illustrator.
==Biography== thumb|(2018) Since 2009, Lassus has contributed to the ''Spongiculture'' blog in which she goes through her daily life against a backdrop of acerbic humour. The project won the "Blog Revelation Prize" two years later, at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.<ref name="1:frwp">{{cite web |title=Oriane Lassus: le repaire d'une autrice de talent |url=http://www.comixtrip.fr/dossiers/festival-angouleme-2018/oriane-lassus/ |website=Comixtrip |access-date=24 February 2023 |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="2:frwp">{{cite news |author1=Elsa |title=Prix de la Révélation Blog: piqûre de rappel et présentation des précédents lauréats |url=https://www.madmoizelle.com/revelation-blog-2013-flashback-137351 |access-date=24 February 2023 |work=Madmoizelle |date=10 December 2012 |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
After a master's degree in illustration at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Lassus published her first comic book, {{lang|fr|Ça va derrière ?}} (Vraoum, 2012). The book explores the individual micro-events that affect the family unit.<ref name="3:frwp">{{cite web |title=Oriane Lassus |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vraoum.eu%2Fauteur.php%3Fauteur%3D53#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |website=www.vraoum.eu |via=archive.wikiwix.com |access-date=24 February 2023 |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
Lassus regularly participates in the {{lang|fr|Pierre Feuille Ciseaux}} artist residencies organized in Arc-et-Senans, which bring together each year a selection of authors among the most innovative of the alternative literary scene.<ref name="4:frwp">{{cite web |title=Oriane Lassus |url=https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Oriane-Lassus/243893 |website=Babelio |access-date=24 February 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
Since 2014, Lassus has collaborated with the children's magazine, ''{{ill|Biscoto (journal)|lt=Biscoto|fr}}'', in which she publishes the story {{lang|fr|Le Meilleurissime Repaire de la Terre}}, honored in the youth selection of the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2018 and the subject of an exhibition in the Pavillon Jeunes Talents (young talents pavilion).<ref name="5:frwp">{{cite web |title=ORIANE LASSUS – 46e Festival de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bdangouleme.com%2F1212%2Cexposition-oriane-lassus#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |website=www.bdangouleme.com |via=archive.wikiwix.com |publisher=Festival International de la bande dessinée |access-date=24 February 2023 |language=fr |date=20 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="6:frwp">{{cite news |title=Festival d'Angoulême. La BD arabe souffle un vent féministe sur la manifestation |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhumanite.fr%2Ffestival-dangouleme-la-bd-arabe-souffle-un-vent-feministe-sur-la-manifestation-649312#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |access-date=24 February 2023 |work=L'Humanité |via=archive.wikiwix.com |date=25 January 2018 |language=fr}}</ref>
In 2016, the comic {{lang|fr|Quoi de plus normal qu'infliger la vie?}} was published by Arbitraire.<ref name="7:frwp">{{cite news |last1=Baron |first1=Léa |title=Oriane Lassus croque ces femmes qui ne veulent pas d'enfants |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Finformation.tv5monde.com%2Fterriennes%2Foriane-lassus-croque-ces-femmes-qui-ne-veulent-pas-d-enfants-107174#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |access-date=24 February 2023 |work=TV5MONDE |via=archive.wikiwix.com |date=13 May 2016 |language=fr}}</ref> In it, Lassus highlights the situation of those women who choose not to have children.<ref name="8:frwp">{{cite news |last1=Le Gall |first1=Pauline |title=Oriane Lassus: cette "no kids" signe une BD choc |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcheekmagazine.fr%2Fculture%2Foriane-lassus-bd-no-kids%2F |access-date=24 February 2023 |work=ChEEk Magazine |date=8 April 2016 |language=fr}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== * 2011: Blog Revelation Prize for ''Spongiculture'', Angoulême International Comics Festival * 2020: {{ill|École européenne supérieure de l'image|fr}} (EESI) prize<ref name="11:frwp">{{cite web |title=L'autrice et illustratrice Oriane Lassus |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.franceculture.fr%2Femissions%2Fles-carnets-de-la-creation%2Flautrice-et-illustratrice-oriane-lassus#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |website=franceculture.fr |via=archive.wikiwix.com |access-date=24 February 2023 |language=fr |date=28 February 2020}}</ref>
==Expositions== * "Le Meilleurissime Repaire de la Terre", Festival d'Angoulême 2018, Pavillon Jeunes Talents, January 2018 * "Oriane Lassus: Lauréate du Prix de l’ÉESI 2020, Exposition personnelle", Éesi Angoulême, 30 January to 15 February 2020<ref name="10:frwp">{{cite web |title=Oriane Lassus: Lauréate du Prix de l'ÉESI 2020 |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eesi.eu%2Fsite%2Fspip.php%3Farticle2147#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |access-date=24 February 2023 |work=eesi.eu |via=archive.wikiwix.com |language=fr}}</ref>
==Selected works== * ''Ça va derrière?'', Vraoum, 2012 * ''Immobilerie Pointure'', Super Structure, 2013 * ''Quoi de plus normal qu'infliger la vie?'', Arbitraire, 2016 *''Première fraîcheur'', Arbitraire, 2017<ref name="9:frwp">{{cite web |language=fr |title=Première fraîcheur |url=https://www.arbitraire.fr/ |website=arbitraire.fr }}</ref> * ''Le Meilleurissime Repaire de la Terre'', Biscoto, 2017 *''Les Gardiennes du grenier'', Biscoto, 2020
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