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“Caribbean Layouts”: Jessica Oublié, Ralph Penel Pierre & Chevelin Pierre

“Caribbean Layouts”: Jessica Oublié, Ralph Penel Pierre & Chevelin Pierre

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Graphic artists and writers from Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Haiti provide perspectives on how to better craft graphic novels and comic books that honor Caribbean sensibilities. With Jessica Oublié (Guadeloupe/Martinique), Ralph Penel Pierre (Haiti), and Chevelin Pierre (Haiti), moderated by author and ReadCaribbean coordinator M.J. Fievre . Special introduction by Anthoni Dominguez, director of Villa Albertine, Miami. In French with English subtitles.

 

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Pierre, Chevelin

Chevelin Pierre is a Haitian graphic and comic artist. He works in advertising illustration, book publishing, preproduction illustration (storyboard), and packaging illustration. As a comic book artist, he is best known for Bizango, a graphic novel about the secrets societies in Haiti.

Penel Pierre, Ralph

Ralph Penel Pierre réalise ses premiers croquis dès son plus jeune en reproduisant les personnages de Marvel Comics. Il participé, tout juste adolescent, à plusieurs concours de dessins où il se distingue. Engagé aux éditions Henri-Deschamps comme infographiste/illustrateur en 1998, il contribue notamment à Couleurs, un livre de contes pour enfants à succès coédité par Hachette-Deschamps et Edicef. En 2006, il participe comme exposant au Comic-Convention International à San-Diego, États-Unis. En 2013, il devient professeur à l’École Nationale des Arts ENARTS. En 2019, il esté en résidence d’auteur en Martinique, invité par la mairie de la Trinité. Il collabore avec la majorité des agences de communications en Haïti et offre son expertise en communication visuelle à plusieurs institutions. Son œuvre (Les Frères Lobo) est présenté dans un dossier pédagogique à l’Université de Rio, Brésil, adresser aux professeurs universitaires du réseau de L’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie AUF, sous le thème : La bande dessinée comme outil pédagogique. Il a œuvré comme chargé de mission en communications visuelle à la Primature haïtienne et au Palais National, ainsi que comme directeur des arts visuels à la Chambre de Commerce haïtiano-américaine (HAAMCC) en Floride, États-Unis. Ralph Penel Pierre is a Haitian graphics designer, illustrator, and educator. He made his first sketches when he was very young, reproducing Marvel Comics characters. As a teenager he participated in several drawing competitions, where he distinguished himself. Hired by Éditions Henri-Deschamps as a graphic designer/illustrator in 1998, he notably contributed to Couleurs, a successful children’s storybook

Oublié, Jessica

Jessica Oublié est l’auteure de Péyi an nou (Steinkis, 2017), roman graphique documentaire sur la migration antillaise institutionnalisée et Tropiques toxiques (Steinkis, 2020), enquête sur la pollution au chlordécone en Martinique et Guadeloupe. En 2021, elle a coordonné la publication de Sargasse, histoire(s) d’une marée brune ouvrage collectif sur l’échouage des sargasses dans les territoires et pays de la Caraïbes et d’Amérique latine. Et depuis 2020, elle travaille à l’écriture de Au nom des miennes, bande dessinée témoignages sur les femmes françaises noires et métisses. Jessica Oublié is a French Guadeloupean graphic novelist. She is the author of Péyi an nou (Steinkis), about institutionalized West Indian migration, and Tropiques toxiques (Steinkis), an investigation into chlordecone pollution in Martinique and Guadeloupe. In 2021, she coordinated the publication of Sargasse, histoire(s) d’une marée brune, a collective work on the stranding of sargassum in the territories and countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. She’s currently working on In the name of mine, a comic book testimonial on Black and mixed-race French women.

Fievre, M.J.

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Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, M.J. Fievre is a longtime educator and writer. A seasoned K-12 teacher, she has taught creative writing workshops to children at the O Miami Poetry Festival and the Miami Art Museum, and at schools in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), and South Florida. She is also the coordinator of Miami Book Fair’s ReadCaribbean program and directs and produces the children’s cultural show Taptap Krik? Krak! Young Trailblazers: The Book of Black Inventors and Scientists (Dragonfruit), a collaborative project with illustrator Kim Balacuit, is a salute to Black pioneers in literature, entertainment, science, education, business, military, sports, spirituality, and more. It’s a journey populated by figures we know – such as Katherine Johnson, George Washington Carver, and Madam C.J. Walker – but many we don’t. Consider James West, a critical figure in the invention of the microphone, or Garrett Morgan, who invented the traffic signal.

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