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Pénélope Bagieu
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French illustrator and comic designer known for blog-format webcomics, including My Quite Fascinating Life, Les Culottées (Brazen) and California Dreamin'.
Biography
Pénélope Bagieu is a French illustrator and comic designer born in Paris on 22 January 1982. She is known for creating blog BDs (French webcomics in blog format) and for a distinctive approach to illustrated storytelling.
She is best known for her blog BDs My Quite Fascinating Life and Les Culottées; the latter was compiled and released in English as the graphic novel Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World. She has also created the blog BDs California Dreamin' and Joséphine. On 20 July 2019 she received an Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material for Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World.
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Books by Pénélope Bagieu
California dreamin'
California Dreamin' (2015) follows Ellen Cohen’s transformation into Mama Cass, recounting her leaving Baltimore at nineteen to become Cass Elliot and her time with The Mamas and the Papas. It traces the group's brief, memorable career and Cass’s struggles with identity amid drugs, war, love, and music.