Valentine is a secondary-school student like many others. Her daily life is filled with all the upheavals and self-questioning of adolescence. Self-conscious, she tries to assert herself within a group in which she is "the shy one". She spends most of her time with her girlfriends, at school or at parties on the weekend. She also tries desperately to get the attention of Felix, the boy she's in love with – and who has no idea she exists. To make things worse, he's in the "rival" class to her own... Little by little, this young woman learns to express herself and find her place in the cruel and treacherous world of adolescence, from MP3 players and Japanese mangas, to her first parties and her first whiskey and Coke.
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Vanyda
Vanyda created her first comic book at the age of six. So it's only natural that she should later go on to specialize in comic book art at the Fine Arts Academy of Tournai (Belgium). When she finished her studies in 2001, she moved to Lille with four friends from her student days: François Duprat, David Bolvin, and Rod and Nicolas Delestret.
With Duprat, Vanyda produced the trilogy "L'année du dragon" (Carabas). She also produced two other trilogies by herself: "L'immeuble d'en face" (La Boîte à bulles) and the black-and-white "Celle que...", later republished in color as "Valentine" (Dargaud; Europe Comics 2016, "Valentine").
In January 2014, Vanyda created the wonderful "Un petit goût de noisette" (Dargaud), a black and white graphic novel of love stories.
Two years later, she was back again with a new one-shot, "Entre ici et ailleurs" (Dargaud).
She's received awards at numerous comic book festivals, been nominated several times at Angouleme, and has also been recognized for the English edition of "L'immeuble d'en face" ("The Building Opposite," Fanfare/Ponent Mon), which won the manga of the year award from "Publishers Weekly." Her recent work includes the drama and humor series "Mia & Co," which follows teenager Mia and her high school friends.
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