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About Christian Quesnel

Christian Quesnel

Artist

Canada

Fantastic, Sci-Fi

Adult

An author of documentary and fantasy comic books, Christian Quesnel was the artist-in-residence who inaugurated the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec’s studio in London in 2009, thereby becoming the first comic book artist to hold a residency in the organisation’s history. In 2018, he undertook another residency at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Bavaria. A three-time winner of the CALQ Prize for Work of the Year in the Outaouais region, he has published Vous avez détruit la beauté du monde (Grand Prix de la Ville de Québec – Bédéis Causa 2021), Mégantic, un train dans la nuit (Éco-Fauve Raja Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2022, Grand Prix de la Ville de Québec – Bédéis Causa 2022), La cité oblique (Aurora/Boréal BD Prize 2023), Dédé, Transmission and, most recently, Blood on the Snow, the Tragedy of Reesor Siding. He has also published Dracula with Callidor (France), L’Ippocampo (Italy) and Folioscopio (Spain), which won the Cultissime Prize at the festival of the same name in Angers, France, in 2025.

Books

Du sang sur la neige : la tragédie de Reesor Siding | Éditions Prise de parole, 2026
Transmission : les héritages de la Baie-James | Éditions Écosociété, 2025
La cité oblique | Éditions Alto, 2022

Awards

Lauréat | Prix réédition cultissime – Festival Cultissime d’Angers, 2025 (Dracula)
Lauréat | Éco-Fauve Raja – Festival BD d’Angoulême, 2022 (Mégantic : un train dans la nuit)
Lauréat | Grand Prix de la Ville de Québec – Bédéis Causa, 2021 & 2022

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