Julie Michelin

Julie Michelin (France, 1990) is a comic strip author and illustrator. A graduate of the École Européenne Supérieure de l’Image in Angoulême and the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg, she lives and works between Brittany and Paris. Sensitive to environmental, social and societal issues, she borrows from reality to fuel her fictions, recounting adventures in which the living takes many forms. Her first graphic novel, Eksploracja, will be published in 2021 by L’Employé du Moi. Involved in various multidisciplinary collectives such as F.Off, Curry Vavart and Fanzine! Festival, she enjoys taking part in publishing, visual and sound arts events.

In residence at Villa Médicis, Julie Michelin will be developing her comic strip project Là où la graine prend, an ecological and societal tale about our relationship with animality, nature and the seasons, as seen through the eyes of a group of teenagers preparing for carnival! It’s the story of a town that’s changing, of friendships that are born or evolve, and of a form of authority that takes precedence over everything else.