About Marina León
Marina León is a comic artist, illustrator and graphic designer. She has been publishing zines since 2010 and children's and comic books since 2014, in Quebec, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. Her book El secreto de Culandro Colabrusca, co-written with Nicolás Schuff, won in 2024 the award Banda Dibujada for best national children's fiction comic book. She is currently completing a master's degree in visual and media arts at UQAM, which has resulted in a comics exhibition on the walls of Montréal's Marc-Favreau and Jean-Corbeil libraries, as well as those of UQAM's CDEx.
Books
Parkinson?, avec Blanche et Olivier Robin – Moelle Graphik, 2025
La revanche du moisi (ill.), avec Karine Gottot – Bayard Canada, 2025
Femme au foyer [zine] – Autopublié, 2025
Awards
Prix du meilleur livre de bande dessinée de fiction jeunesse nationale (Banda Dibujada), Buenos Aires, 2024
Finaliste au 14e Concours interuniversitaire de bande dessinée (RIVE, UdeM), Montréal, 2023
Finaliste au Premio a la Ilustración Latinoamericana (Universidad de Palermo), Buenos Aires, 2018
MCAF 2025
Available during all the festival duration at D26
Guest at MCAF
2023, 2024, 2025
