Cruelle Joelle
Ninie, pen name of Virginie Perrot Soumagnac, was born in Poitiers in 1975. She studied at the Pivaut School of Arts in Nantes, and had her first comics published in some local fanzines. She has been active as an illustrator of children's books for clients like ZOOlibri, Milan, Bayard, Zoom, Yomad, Averbode. Since 2009, she also makes the comic strip 'Rustine' with writer Michaël Escoffier for the magazine J'Aime Lire. She has also made several books starring 'Cruelle Joëlle' with Davide Cali for Éditions Sarbacane since 2010.