Florence Cestac

Florence Cestac (born 18 July 1949) is a French cartoonist and former publisher. She is the first woman to have won the prestigious Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême, in 2000, and was the only one until Rumiko Takahashi in 2019.

Career Born in Pont-Audemer, Cestac initially worked as an illustrator. In 1972, she took over the bookstore "Futuropolis" with her husband , and transformed it into the comics publisher .

She created the humorous detective stories of for the comics magazines L'Écho des savanes, Charlie Mensuel, Pilote and . After Futuropolis was bought by Gallimard in 1994, she created the series for Le Journal de Mickey, working with .

Her series Cestac pour les grands, aimed at an adult audience, brought her popular success and recognition. One album, (1996), was adapted for the stage and as the 2005 film The Demon Stirs.

Awards 1989: Alph-Art humour, festival d'Angoulême, for Harry Mickson vol. 5 1997: Alph-Art humour for Le Démon de midi 2000: Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême 2014: Grand Prix Saint-Michel

Books (1979-1988) (1994-2002) with (1996) (2005) (2013) (2006-2010) (2007) (2009) written by Jean Teulé. Biographical graphic novel about the comics artist Charlie Schlingo (2011) written by Tonino Benacquista (2015) written by Daniel Pennac (2021)