Originally from Quebec City and based in Montreal for several years, Catherine Ocelot is an illustrator, comic book author, and artist. She writes the comic strip column Nature humaine for La Presse and is the author of several acclaimed works, including Symptômes (2022, Prix des Collégiens), La vie d’artiste (2018, Prix Bédélys), Talk-Show (2016), and Nenette cherche un sens (2006). She has also created numerous illustrated columns and comics for publications such as ELLE Québec and Liberté magazine.
Her work explores emotions that elude words, delves into what lies beneath appearances, and portrays—with a touch of melancholic humor—the precious, wondrous, and sometimes sorrowful aspects of human relationships. Fascinated by the body and its transformations, she weaves sensitive narratives where detail and subtlety reveal the invisible.
A graduate in Visual Arts Education (Université Laval) and Art Therapy (Concordia University), she worked for five years at Radio-Canada as an art director and designer before becoming a freelance motion designer and illustrator. For the past decade, she has devoted most of her practice to comics and drawing, developing a body of work that is both intimate, poetic, and universal.
