Axelle Lenoir | |
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Born | 1979 |
Occupation | Comics artist |
Website | https://www.axellelenoir.com/ |
Axelle Lenoir (born 1979, Notre-Dame-du-La).[1][2] is a Canadian comic book author who lives in Quebec.
Axelle Lenoir was introduced to comics very early; between the ages of 6 and 9, she discovered Philémon[3] and Spirou and Fantasio[1] in her father's comics collection.
She left home at the age of 16 to study visual arts at the Cégep de Sainte-Foy. In 1998, she moved to Rivière-du-Loup to take a course in graphic design.
After graduating, she returned to Quebec, where she was hired by a video game company. After four years, the company closed its animation department and she decided to start a career in comics[4]
In 2005, she published her first comic book series, Mertownville.[5] It has two volumes: Lydia and 1951.
In 2020, Axelle Lenoir removed references to Harry Potter in her comic What if we were... because of J K Rowling's views on trans people. She replaced them with a reference to the heroines Adora and Catra from the animated series She-ra and the Princesses of Power, known for having featured LGBT characters.[6]
Lenoir is transgender. She publicly announced her transition in 2019, in an interview with Curium, a magazine for teenagers where her comic series, What if we were... (Si on était...) was published every week.[7]