Cécile Guillard

Cécile Guillard (Marseille, 1994) is a French illustrator, animator, and comic book artist. She graduated in illustration from the Estienne school in 2015 and later completed her animation training at the prestigious Gobelins school in 2019. Influenced by artists like Moebius, Blutch, and Christophe Blain, she made her comic book debut with Une vie de moche (2019), written by François Bégaudeau. This feminist, humorous watercolor graphic novel won the Album d'Or prize at the Bulle d'Or festival. In 2020, she illustrated the investigative journalism comic Cent mille ans, about nuclear waste management, which was highly praised for its visual power and precise graphics. After illustrating works such as the cookbook Le goût de l'imprévu (2023), she released Refuge in early 2025, her first graphic novel as a solo author. In the audiovisual field, she stands out for her work as the art director for the animated film Le Corset, directed by Louis Clichy.