{{Short description|French comics book artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = Virginie Augustin | image = Virginie Augustin 2016.jpg | caption = (2016) | birth_date = {{b-da|11 March 1973}} | birth_place = Chatou, France | alma_mater = Gobelins | notable_works = {{hlist|''Monsieur Désire?''|''Tarzan''|''Hercules''|''W.I.T.C.H.''|''Dragon Hunters''|''Code Lyoko''}} | awards = * 2017, Prix Diagonale * 2006, Prix Saint-Michel }} '''Virginie Augustin''' (11 March 1973, Chatou) is a French comics book artist. She has also worked on animated features with Walt Disney Animation Studios and France 3.
==Biography== After studying at Gobelins,<ref name="comicarttracker">{{cite web |title=Virginie Augustin Original Art For Sale |url=https://comicarttracker.com/virginie-augustin-original-art-for-sale |website=ComicArtTracker |access-date=25 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Augustin worked with Walt Disney Animation Studios on the animated features ''Tarzan'' (1999) and ''Hercules'' (1997).<ref name="comicvine">{{cite web |title=Virginie Augustin |url=https://comicvine.gamespot.com/virginie-augustin/4040-71813/ |website=Comic Vine |access-date=25 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Her career in animation also led her to work on ''W.I.T.C.H.'' (2001), ''Dragon Hunters'' (2006), and ''Code Lyoko'' (2003) for France 3, and on the animated film ''Corto Maltese, la cour secrète des arcanes'' (2002). thumb|(2008) Shortly after ''Corto Maltese'', in 2003, she joined the comic strip world and drew the four volumes of the ''bande dessinée'' heroic fantasy series ''{{ill|Alim le tanneur|fr}}'' with scriptwriter {{ill|Wilfrid Lupano|fr}}. Augustin then participated in several collectives ({{lang|fr|Les beaux dessins de Francis Cabrel}},<ref name="1:frwp">{{cite news |last1=Boileau |first1=Laurent |title=Les beaux dessins de Francis Cabrel - Collectif - Delcourt |url=https://www.actuabd.com/Les-beaux-dessins-de-Francis-Cabrel-Collectif-Delcourt |access-date=25 March 2023 |work=ActuaBD |date=22 November 2005 |language=fr}}</ref> {{lang|fr|Les Chansons illustrées de Patrick Bruel}}, {{lang|fr|Polnareff - Suite de Bulles}},<ref name="2:frwp">{{cite news |author1=L.B. |title=Polnareff en BD - ActuaBD |url=https://www.actuabd.com/+Polnareff-en-BD+ |access-date=25 March 2023 |work=www.actuabd.com |date=14 September 2007 |language=fr}}</ref> {{lang|fr|Premières fois}},<ref name="3:frwp">{{cite news |last1=Boileau |first1=Laurent |title=Premières fois - par Sibylline et 10 auteurs - Delcourt |url=https://www.actuabd.com/Premieres-fois-par-Sibylline-et-10-auteurs-Delcourt |access-date=25 March 2023 |work=ActuaBD |date=30 May 2008 |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="4:frwp">{{cite news |last1=Cassel |first1=Benoit |title=Premières fois chez Delcourt |url=https://www.planetebd.com/bd/delcourt/premieres-fois/-/5382.html# |access-date=25 March 2023 |date=26 April 2008 |language=fr}}</ref> and {{lang|fr|Sur les traces de Luuna}}). She also produced a sketchbook for Comix buro, the collection of books directed by {{ill|Olivier Vatine|fr}}.
Then she entered the collection of ''{{ill|Les Légendes de Troy|fr}}'', where she drew ''Voyage aux Ombres,'',<ref name="librairiemartelle">{{cite web |title=Légendes de Troy: voyage aux ombres - Christophe Arleston, Virginie Augustin, Audrey Alwett - Soleil - Grand format - Librairie Martelle AMIENS |url=https://www.librairiemartelle.com/livre/9782302015708-legendes-de-troy-voyage-aux-ombres-christophe-arleston-virginie-augustin-audrey-alwett/ |website=librairiemartelle.com |access-date=25 March 2023 |language=fr}}</ref> a one-shot scripted by Christophe Arleston and {{ill|Audrey Alwett|fr}}, published in May 2011.
She collaborated with Hubert, who wrote for her the script of {{lang|fr|Monsieur Désire?}} published in 2016,<ref name="5:frwp">Jarno, Stéphane, "Monsieur désire ? Hubert et Virginie Augustin", ''Télérama'', 24 September 2016 {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref name="6:frwp">{{cite news |last1=Biernat |first1=Tahani |title=Monsieur désire? - Par Hubert et Virginie Augustin - (...) |url=https://www.actuabd.com/Monsieur-desire-Par-Hubert-et-Virginie-Augustin-Glenat |access-date=25 March 2023 |work=ActuaBD |date=8 October 2016 |language=fr}}</ref> with which the authors won 2017 {{ill|Prix Diagonale|fr}} for best album.<ref name="7:frwp">{{cite news |last1=Schraûwen |first1=Jacques |title=BD: Prix Diagonale-Le Soir à Louvain-La-Neuve et tout un week-end d'animation |url=https://www.rtbf.be/culture/bande-dessinee/detail_bd-prix-diagonale-le-soir-a-louvain-la-neuve-et-tout-un-week-end-d-animation-jacques-schrauwen?id=9599009 |access-date=25 March 2023 |work=RTBF Culture |date=6 May 2017 |language=fr |archive-date=23 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423115631/https://www.rtbf.be/culture/bande-dessinee/detail_bd-prix-diagonale-le-soir-a-louvain-la-neuve-et-tout-un-week-end-d-animation-jacques-schrauwen?id=9599009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Awards and honours== * 2017, Prix Diagonale for best album, script by Hubert, for ''Monsieur Désire?''<ref name="7:frwp" /> * 2017, Finalist, Prix de la critique, script by Hubert, for ''Monsieur Désire?''<ref name="11:frwp">{{cite web |title=Les cinq finalists 2017 |url=https://www.acbd.fr/ |website=www.acbd.fr |publisher=Association des critiques et journalistes de bande dessinée {{!}} ACBD.fr |access-date=25 March 2023 |language=fr |date=16 November 2016}}</ref> * 2006, Prix Saint-Michel de l'avenir award, script by Wilfrid Lupano, for ''Alim le tanneur'', tome 2: ''Le Vent de l'exil''<ref name="10:frwp">{{cite web |title=GCD:: Received Award:: Avenir (Future) |url=https://www.comics.org/received_award/8854/ |website=www.comics.org |access-date=25 March 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
==Selected works== ===Series=== * ''Alim le tanneur'' ** 1, ''Le Secret des eaux'', Delcourt, collection ''Terres de Légendes'', 2004 (script, Wilfrid Lupano; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Virginie Augustin, Geneviève Penloup) {{ISBN|2-84789-103-X}} ** 2, ''Le Vent de l'exil'', Delcourt, collection Terres de Légendes, 2006 (script, Wilfrid Lupano; design, Virginie Augustin; colorists, Virginie Augustin, Geneviève Penloup) {{ISBN|2-84789-946-4}} ** 3, ''La Terre du prophète pâle'', 2007, Delcourt, collection Terres de Légendes (Virginie Augustin) ** 4, ''Là où brûlent les regards'', 2009, Delcourt, collection Terres de Légendes (Virginie Augustin, Dimitri Fogolin) ** INT ''Édition intégrale'', 2012, Delcourt, collection Long Métrage (Virginie Augustin, Geneviève Penloup, Dimitri Fogolin) *''40 Éléphants'' ** 1, ''Florrie, doigts de fée'', Bamboo Édition collection ''Grand Angle'', 2017 (script, Kid Toussaint; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Hubert) {{ISBN|978-2-8189-4352-6}} ** 2, ''Maggie, passe-muraille'', Bamboo Édition collection Grand Angle, 2018 (script, Kid Toussaint; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Hubert) {{ISBN|978-2-8189-4503-2}} ** 3, ''Dorothy, la poinçonneuse'', Bamboo Édition collection Grand Angle, 2019 (script, Kid Toussaint; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Hubert) {{ISBN|978-2-8189-4721-0}}
===One-shots and diptychs=== * ''Voyage aux ombres'', Soleil, collection ''Légendes de Troy'', 2011 (script, Christophe Arleston, Audrey Alwett; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Yoann Guillo) {{ISBN|978-2-8189-4721-0}} * ''Whaligoë tome 1'', Casterman, 2013 (script, Yann; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Virginie Augustin, Fabien Alquier) {{ISBN|978-2-203-06089-0}} * ''Whaligoë tome 2'', Casterman, 2014 (script, Yann; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Fabien Alquier) {{ISBN|978-2-203-07493-4}} * ''Monsieur désire?'', Glénat, 2016 (script, Hubert; design, Virginie Augustin; colorist, Hubert) {{ISBN|978-2-344-00580-4}} * ''Shadows in the Moonlight'', Glénat, 2019 (script and pencils, Virginie Augustin) * ''Joe la Pirate'', Glénat, 2021 (script, Hubert; design, Virginie Augustin) {{ISBN|978-2-344-03943-4}}
===Participation in collective works=== * ''Francis Cabrel - Les beaux dessins'', Delcourt, 2005 (script and color, collective; design, Virginie Augustin, collective) {{ISBN| 2-84789-927-8}} * ''Polnareff suite de bulles'', Soleil Productions, 2007 (script and color, collective; design, Virginie Augustin, collective) {{ISBN| 978-2-84946-803-6}} * ''Premières fois'', Delcourt, 2008 (script, Sibylline; design, Virginie Augustin, collective; colorist, black and white) {{ISBN| 978-2-7560-1272-8}} * ''Sur les traces de Luuna'', Soleil Productions, 2008 (script and color, collective; design, Virginie Augustin, collective) {{ISBN| 978-2-302-00227-2}} * ''Souvenirs de films'', Le Lombard, 2009 (script, Jean-Pierre Eugène; design, Virginie Augustin, collective; colorist, collective) {{ISBN| 978-2-8036-2580-2}} * ''Une McStory française'', Cliomédia, 2009 (script, Pierre Dottelonde; design, Virginie Augustin, collective; colorist, collective) {{ISBN| 2-909522-28-8}} * ''Les Gens normaux'', Casterman, 2013 (script, Cyril Pedrosa, Hubert; design, Virginie Augustin, collective; colorist, collective) {{ISBN| 978-2-203-07724-9}} * ''Héro(ïne)s : la représentation féminine en bande-dessinée'', Arte Editions, 2015 (script, Jean-Christophe Deveney, Isabelle Guillaume; design, Virginie Augustin, collective; colorist, collective) {{ISBN| 978-2-9547148-4-4}}
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