Sylvie Rancourt is the creator of the comic heroine 'Mélody'. She had been working as a nude dancer for four years, when she decided to create an alter-ego for herself in the form of comic character Mélody in 1985. The first issue of her autobiographical comic about the life of a nude dancer was called 'Mélody à Ses Debuts'. In 1988, she teamed up with artist Jacques Boivin to write a new series of 'Mélody' for the American market at Kitchen Sink Press. Ten issues appeared, as well as the book collection 'The Orgies of Abitibi'.