Lisa Mandel

Lisa Mandel (known as, Lisa; born 23 April 1977, Marseille) is a French bande dessinée comic book author. With Jul Maroh, Mandel co-founded the Collective of female comics creators against sexism (2015). In 2021, Mandel launched the Exemplaire publishing house, with the subtitle, (The house that publishes differently).

Early life and education Lisa Mandel joined the Lycée Denis Diderot in Marseille at the age of 15, to take a baccalaureate in Applied Arts, from which she graduated in 1995 to enter the École supérieure des arts décoratifs in Strasbourg. It was during her studies that she began to collaborate with various magazines at Milan Presse, such as Julie and Les Clés de l'actualité junior as well as the magazine Tchô! for which she regularly produces small strips and cartoons.

Career In 2001, she graduated and created the series Nini Patalo in the magazine Tchô!, and in the monthly Capsule cosmique, she imagined the character dʼEddy Milveux. These are her two youth series. for its volume 4, L'important c'est de gagner. Since 2010, Nini Patalo is adapted into an animated series and also the Prix de la meilleure BD adaptable au cinéma et à la télévision at the . The album was in the official selection of the 2009 Angoulême International Comics Festival.

Since 2009, Mandel has been working on a series HP, published by L'Association, in which she explores the world of psychiatric hospitals through the testimony of her mother and father-in-law, psychiatric nurses In January 2018, the collective gathered more than 250 signatories.

In 2016, with the sociologist Yasmine Bouagga, she launched the collection Sociorama at Casterman, whose principle is to adapt in comics the research of sociologists, such as the construction sites, the pornography industry, the flight crew, and the street pickers. Mandel herself created an opus within the collection, La Fabrique pornographique, based on the book by sociologist Mathieu Trachman, Le Travail pornographique. She also produces a humorous strip once a week, La Famille Mifa, in the mobile app la Matinale of the newspaper Le Monde.

From February to October 2016, Mandel and Bouagga followed the daily life of migrants in the Calais Jungle through a blog, Les Nouvelles de la jungle. which wrote in its review: "this comic book offers a real historical perspective and a remarkable dive into the complexity of the problem. The satirical treatment of the drawing does not prevent a nuanced commentary, which provokes reflection on complex humanitarian, political and social issues16." The newspaper Le Figaro states: "Deplorable living conditions, personal stories, fear of the mafia, muscular dismantling or inter-community struggles... Lisa Mandel and Yasmine Bouagga have decided to tell the story of the "jungle" in a humorous way, without voyeurism or misery." Since 2017, Mandel has often traveled to Lebanon and has also produced a comic book diary, (Delcourt, 2018).

In 2019, Mandel began the webcomic series, , where she tries to overcome her addictions in one year, producing one page per day. This project was funded by a subscription. The entirety of the plates is published on the artist's Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts. The work is in the selection for the 2021 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album.

In response to the pauperization of comic book authors, Mandel launched the Exemplaire publishing house in November 2020, based on participatory financing.

Awards and honours 2007, Prix Tam-Tam, of the Montreuil book and youth press fair for the fourth album of Nini Patalo 2009 : Prix Artémisia de la bande dessinée féminine, with Tanxxx, for Esthétique et filatures 2009, Prix de la meilleure bd adaptable au cinéma et à la télévision for Esthétiques et filatures at the Monaco International Film and Writing Forum 2009, Official Selection, Festival d'Angoulême for Esthétique et filatures 2011, Nugget, Best Television Series, Montreuil Book and Youth Press Fair for the adaptation Nini Patalo (directed by Boris Guilloteau; scriptwriters, Lisa Mandel and Laurent Sarfati) 2012, Official Selection, Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy for one episode of the television series, Nini Patalo 2017, Favorite, from the National Center for Children's Literature (BnF) for Les Nouvelles de la jungle de Calais, with Yasmine Bouagga

Event participations 2014, Jury, Angoulême Festival, alongside Bernard Willem Holtrop as president of the jury

Selected works

Nini Patalo, Glénat Où sont passés mes parents ?, 2003 C'est parti mon Kiki !, 2004 Catch, espace et poireaux, 2005 L'Important c'est de gagner, 2006 Coucou nous revoilou !!, 2009 Eddy Milveux, Milan Attention, blatte magique !, 2004 Eddy dans tous ses états !, 2005 À tes souhaits, 2015 Le Moustique qui voulait devenir célèbre, script by Olivier Ka, Lire c'est Partir, 2003 L'Île du professeur mémé, drawing by Julien Hippolyte, Milan, 2006 Libre comme un poney sauvage, Delcourt, 2006 Boule de neige (collective), Delcourt, 2007 Princesse aime princesse, Gallimard, collection Bayou, 2008 Esthétique et filatures, drawing by Tanxxx, Casterman, collection KSTR, 2008 (Official Selection, Festival d'Angoulême 2009) Brune Platine, drawing by Marion Mousse, Casterman, 2013 HP, L'Association, collection Espôlette L'Asile d'aliénés, 2009 Crazy Seventies, 2013 Vertige, drawing by Hélène Georges, Casterman, 2012 Mon lapin, issue no. 5 (collective), L'Association, 2014 Comicscope of David Rault (collectifve), l'Apocalypse, 2013 Super Rainbow, Casterman, collection Professeur Cyclope, 2015 La Fabrique pornographique, co-scriptwriter with Mathieu Trachman, Casterman, collection Sociorama, 2016 Je me défends du harcèlement, text by Emmanuelle Piquet, Albin Michel Jeunesse, 2016 Les Nouvelles de la jungle de Calais, co-scriptwriter with Yasmine Bouagga, Casterman, collection Sociorama, 2017 La Famille Mifa, Glénat, 2017 Prézizidentielle, co-scriptwriter with Julie Pagis, Casterman, collection Sociorama, 2017 Un automne à Beyrouth, Delcourt, collection Shampooing, 2018 Je me défends du sexisme, text by Emmanuelle Piquet, Albin Michel Jeunesse, 2018 Je combats ce qui m’empêche d’apprendre, text by Emmanuelle Piquet, Albin Michel Jeunesse, 2019 Allez les filles !, text by Emmanuelle Piquet, Albin Michel Jeunesse, 2020 Une année exemplaire, self-published, 2020 Se rétablir, Exemplaire Volume 1, 2022 - Official Selection of Festival d'Angoulême 2023