Johanna Schipper

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 for women's comics.

Early life and education She was born in 1967 in Taiwan, to a Dutch mother and a sinologist father. 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.

After graduating from high school, she studied comics at the (ÉESI) (European School of Image) in Angoulême.

This was followed in 2006 by and in 2007 by , which won the 2008 Prix Artémisia for women's comics.

Awards 2008, Artémisia Prize for the female comic strip for Nos âmes sauvages

Selected works Les Phosfées, Delcourt, coll. "Jeunesse", 3 vol., 2000–2002. Née quelque part, Delcourt, coll. "Mirages", 2004 Une par une, Éditions de l'an 2, coll. "Traits féminins", 2005 (writing as "Nina") Expanded reissue of a story and under the name "Johanna", La Boîte à bulles, 2010 . Les Six Cygnes (according to the tale of the brothers Grimm), Delcourt, coll. "Jeunesse", 2006 Nos âmes sauvages, Futuropolis, 2007 . Prix Artémisia 2008. Le printemps refleurira, Futuropolis, 2 vol., 2010