Marianne Boucher is a comics creator and painter from Kirkland Lake, Ontario. After graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design, she worked as a court illustrator, covering crime stories for a Toronto television station for 30 years. Her graphic novel, Talking To Strangers, an adult memoir, was published by Penguin Random House in 2020, and was listed as one of the best Canadian comics in 2020 by CBC. She started a new graphic novel while attending the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia writer’s residency in Avonport in Fall of 2023. A recent move back to northern Ontario has rekindled her desire to return to painting. She is represented by Britton Gallery in Muskoka.