Julie Maroh
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Description
Julie Maroh is an author and illustrator originally from northern France. She started working on her acclaimed graphic novel Blue Is the Warmest Color when she was nineteen; the book, originally published in French, was published in English by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2013 and has been translated into numerous other languages. Her follow-up book, Skandalon, will be published in fall 2014. She studied comic art at the Institute Saint-Luc in Brussels and lithography and engraving at the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels, where she still lives.
Books
Skandalon
Après le très remarqué Le Bleu est une couleur chaude, Julie Maroh revient sur le devant de la scène avec un nouveau roman graphique sur l’âme torturée d’un jeune artiste provocateur et flamboyant. Une réflexion puissante sur notre société et son rapport aux interdits.
Blue is the warmest color
Originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur chaude, Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine is a junior in high school who seems average enough: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she wanders into a lesbian bar where she encounters Emma: a punkish, confident girl with blue hair. Their attraction is instant and electric, and Clementine find herself in a relationship that will test her friends, parents, and her own ideas about herself and her identity.
Le bleu est une couleur chaude
Mon ange de bleu, Bleu du ciel, Bleu des rivières, Source de vie… La vie de Clémentine bascule le jour où elle rencontre Emma, une jeune fille aux cheveux bleus, qui lui fait découvrir toutes les facettes du désir. Elle lui permettra d’affronter enfin le regard des autres. Un récit tendre et sensible.