Julie Rocheleau (artist)


Julie Rocheleau is a Canadian animation designer, graphic novel artist and illustrator living in Montreal, Quebec.
From 1999 to 2002, she studied at the Cégep du Vieux Montréal. Her short animation Griselda won second prize in a category for promising students in a competition sponsored by Teletoon. From 2002 to 2011, she worked for different animation studios in character design and storyboarding. During the same period, she illustrated books for children and young adults and designed notices for various cultural events. In 2010, she published her first graphic novel La Fille invisible, based on a script by Emilie Villeneuve; the pair received a for the work. In 2011, Rocheleau also received a Joe Shuster Award for outstanding colourist; she was also nominated in the outstanding artist category. The first book in the series La colère de Fantômas, with writer received an award in the graphic novel category at the Festival Interpol'art at Reims. In 2014, the first book of La Colère de Fantomas earned her a Joe Shuster Award for outstanding cover artist.

Selected work