Yvette Lapointe

Yvette Lapointe (19 August 1912 – 5 September 1994) was a designer, known as a pioneer of Quebec comics, who made a career in comics and illustration from 1932 to 1943, then retired from publishing. She remains the first Quebec female comic book author, In 1932, she launched herself into comics and illustration, drawing on the relations between men and women and everyday life in the periodical L'Illustration, where she contributed daily to the strip . A year later, she began her most famous series in the pages of La Patrie: , whose heroes are "two rascals", Réal and his sister Mimi Pistache. The series ran from May to August 1933. and La Presse.

After her marriage in 1943, she ended her professional career and then raised four sons, all mathematicians. She died on 5 September 1994.

Awards Posthumous award of the Prix Albert-Chartier.