Gisèle Lagacé
| Gisèle Lagacé | |
|---|---|
Lagacé at the Montreal Comiccon, 2016. | |
| Born | June 16, 1970 New Brunswick, Canada |
| Area | Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker, Editor, Publisher |
Notable works | Ménage à 3 Archie |
| Collaborators | David Lumsdon |
| Awards | 2001 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards - Best Art 2002 Kimberly Yale Award - Best New Talent 2018 Joe Shuster Award - Webcomics Creator |
| giselelagace | |
Gisèle Lagacé (born June 16, 1970, in New Brunswick, Canada) is a Canadian comics writer and artist, writer and illustrator of webcomics. She is best known for her series Ménage à 3.
Biography
Lagacé was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, Canada. She attended high school at l'ESN in Bathurst, New Brunswick, and studied visual arts for a year at Université de Moncton before graduating in graphic design from La Cité collégiale in Ottawa.[1]
She was a bassist for the Quebec all-female band Barbarella in the early 1990s,[2] then worked as a graphic designer.[3]
In 2017, Lagacé was traveling to attend the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo and was denied entry to the United States at the Canadian Border.[4]
Works
In 2000, she wrote and illustrated the webcomic Cool Cat Studio which quickly became popular in 2001 and won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for best art.[5] That led to the 2002 co-winning of the Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent.[6]
From 2004 to 2009, she worked with writer T Campbell to co-create the Penny and Aggie series about the rivalry of two girls and their friends. Lagacé was nominated in the 2007 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for Outstanding Romantic Comic.[7]
In 2008, she created with writer David Lumsdon the series strip Ménage à 3 (meaning "threesome"/"love triangle" or "three person household") which tells a sex comedy story similar to television show Three's Company. The strip was consistently in the top 50 rated webcomics and ended in 2019.[1] Lagacé was also nominated for the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Webcomics Creator. Lagacé was invited to the 2008 Anime Festival in Montreal.[8] In 2018, Ménage à 3 won the Joe Shuster Award for "Webcomics Creator".[9]
In 2009, she created the series Eerie Cuties which tells the story of high school monsters. David Lumsdon later joined as co-writer.[1] In January 2013, she created a spinoff of Ménage à 3, called Sticky Dilly Buns.[1]
Lagacé has penciled Archie Comics,[3] and also illustrated the Ramones-themed one-shot, Archie Meets Ramones, in 2016.[10]
She drew a Betty Boop mini series for Dynamite Entertainment in 2016,[11] and issues #24-26 of Jem and the Holograms from IDW Publishing.[12][13][14] She illustrated the covers of the Marvel Comics series Unbelievable Gwenpool for issues #12 and #13 from February to March 2015, and is the artist of Exorsisters, an ongoing series from Image Comics written by Ian Boothby.[15]
References
- ^ a b c d John, Saint (July 26, 2019). "NB Artist/Creator Gisèle Lagacé is a Comics Queen". Country 94. Retrieved October 31, 2025.
- ^ Jones, Jarrod. "6 things concerning Gisèle Lagacé and the Kickstartin' flurry of 'Pixie Trix Comix'". DoomRocket.com. Retrieved November 1, 2025.
- ^ a b Dart, Chris (August 31, 2023). "Gisèle Lagacé went from glam rock to R-rated webcomic to drawing America's favourite ginger teen". cbc.ca. Retrieved October 31, 2025.
- ^ McMillan, Graeme (April 21, 2017). "Canadian Comic Artist Refused Entry to the U.S. for Convention". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 1, 2025.
- ^ "2001 Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 2009-12-31.
- ^ "The Lulu Award Winners 1997-2008". Friends of Lulu. 2008. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009.
- ^ "The 2007 Cartoonist's Choice Awards". Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
- ^ "Invités Webcomic". Retrieved 2015-03-10.
- ^ Boyd, Kevin A. (2018-09-05). "The 2018 Joe Shuster Award Winners". joeshusterawards.com.
- ^ Freligh, Tai (October 5, 2016). "Comic Book Review – Archie Meets Ramones #1". Flickering Myth. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ^ Sims, Chris (2016-07-18). "Dynamite Announces 'Betty Boop' From Langridge And Lagacé". ComicsAlliance.
- ^ "Exclusive Preview: They're Hawaii Bound in Jem and the Holograms #24 - CBR". Comic Book Resources. 2017-03-25.
- ^ Shiach, Kieran (2017-03-31). "Jerrica And Rio Talk It Out In 'Jem And The Holograms' #25". ComicsAlliance.
- ^ Ching, Albert (2017-01-25). "IDW's Jem and the Holograms Takes a Bow in April, But an Encore is Planned - CBR". Comic Book Resources.
- ^ Johnston, Rich (July 24, 2018). "Image Comics Launches Blackbird, Dead Rabbit, Errand Boys, Exorsisters, Infinite Dark, Jook Joint, Murder Falcon, Norroway in October 2018 Solicits". Bleeding Cool.