Lisa Mandel is a French comic strip artist, born in Marseille in the last century. Known for her offbeat humour and her simple yet incisive drawing, she began her career in children's comics, notably with the Nini Patalo series. As time went by, she gradually turned her attention to "real-life" comics. The author of several autobiographies (kinda), in the late 2000s she produced a historical fresco for L'Association ; the book was about the career of her parents, nurses in a psychiatric hospital. She then collaborated regularly with a team of sociologists and co-founded the Sociorama collection for Casterman, which adapts sociological surveys into comic strips. With researcher Yasmine Bouagga, she notably produced Les nouvelles de la jungle de Calais, which retraces the last 6 months of the largest French migrant camp of the 21st century, in northern France. In 2019, she embarked on a pharaonic project: to produce a page a day for a year, in order to deal with all her addictions. Une année exemplaire was published in 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 crisis. Empowered by the success of her self-published book, Lisa Mandel went on and created Editions Exemplaire. The aim of this alternative publishing structure is to ensure a fairer distribution of income for authors, who have been victims of rampant casualization for several decades. Her most recent project is Se rétablir, a chronicle of recovery in mental health. All her latest work can be found on her social networks.

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