The French cartoonist Jenny at a book event
Jenny at the Delcourt Festival in Paris, France, in 2006.

Jenny Rakotomamonjy (born 1979), known by the pen name Jenny, is a Malagasy-born French cartoonist and animator. She is a co-founder of the Chibimag comics studio.[1]

Biography

Jenny Rakotomamonjy was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, in 1979. At age 3, she left the island with her parents and moved to the Paris suburbs.[1] She studied art at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne's Saint-Charles Center, then completed a two-year program on animation at Gobelins, l'École de l'image.[2]

In 2002 Jenny, who signs her work with only her first name, produced her first animated short, Le Papillon, with Antoine Antin.[2] The short was chosen for the Canal J Prize at that year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival.[3] Shortly thereafter, she was hired by Marathon Animation to work on character design for the series Martin Mystery and storyboards for Totally Spies! [4]

Jenny released her first comic, the shojo manga-style Pink Diary, in 2005.[3] The Pink Diary series, published by Delcourt in France,[5] won the 2006 prize for Best Manga-Style Bande Dessinée from the French magazine Animeland.[6] It ran through 2008,[3] after which Jenny launched a new series, Mathilde,[7] followed by Sara et les Contes perdus.[8] She has also worked on a spin-off of Patricia Lyfoung's La Rose écarlate series.[9]

She also in 2003 became a founding member of the Chibimag comics studio, through which she has collaborated on various comic fanzines.[1]

Jenny lives in Eure-et-Loir, France,[10] where she frequently collaborates with her husband, the fellow comics creator Alexis Coridun.[1]

Selected works

  • Pink Diary (8 books, complete series)
  • Mathilde (5 books, complete series)
  • Sara et les contes perdus (6 books, complete series)
  • La Rose écarlate - Missions (6 books, ongoing series)
  • Comme un garçon (4 books, complete series)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Jenny". lambiek.net. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  2. 1 2 "Jenny Rakotomamonjy – Jeune Afrique". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). 2008-03-31. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  3. 1 2 3 "Bio express : Jenny Rakotomamonjy – Jeune Afrique". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). 2008-03-31. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  4. ↑ Raberanto, Aina Zo (2017-06-27). "Jenny Rakotomamonjy: "J'assume mes japonaiseries"". No Comment. No. 89.
  5. ↑ "Pink Diary T01". Pink Diary T01 (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  6. ↑ "14e Anime & Manga GRAND PRIX : les vainqueurs". AnimeLand (in French). 2007-05-04. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  7. ↑ "Mathilde T01 - Le Temps des soupirs". Mathilde T01 - Le Temps des soupirs (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  8. ↑ "Sara et les contes perdus T01". Sara et les contes perdus T01 (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  9. ↑ "La Rose Écarlate - Missions 3 : bande annonce". www.editions-delcourt.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  10. ↑ "JENNY". www.editions-delcourt.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-02.
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