Mira Falardeau

Mira Falardeau (born 1948) is a French Canadian historian, professor, and author of comic strips (French: bande dessinée, BD). Falardeau has devoted works to Québec animated films, Québec comic strips and caricatures in Québec, focusing on visual humour in all its forms. She taught as a professor of cinema and communication at Laval University and the University of Ottawa. Falardeau has also curated exhibitions in the visual arts and operated a small publishing house.

Biography Falardeau graduated with a master's degree in art history from Laval University in Québec in 1978. Her thesis was L'Humour visuel: un modèle d'analyse visuelle des images comiques (English: Visual Humour: A Model for Visual Analysis of Comic Images).

Falardeau, Mira (2020). A History of Women Cartoonists, Toronto, Mosaic Press. Augmented and updated reissue under the title Femmes et humour.

Exhibitions as guest curator

Les Aventures de la bande dessinée québécoise, Museum of Québec, 1997–1998