Jenny Rakotomamonjy (born 1979), known by the pen name Jenny, is a Malagasy-born French cartoonist and animator. She is a co-founder of the Chibimag comics studio. [1]
Jenny Rakotomamonjy (born 1979), known by the pen name Jenny, is a Malagasy-born French cartoonist and animator. She is a co-founder of the Chibimag comics studio. [1]
Jenny Rakotomamonjy was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, in 1979. At age 3, she left the island with her parents and moved to the Paris suburbs. [1] She studied art at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne's Saint-Charles Center, then completed a two-year program on animation at Gobelins, l'École de l'image. [2]
In 2002 Jenny, who signs her work with only her first name, produced her first animated short, Le Papillon, with Antoine Antin. [2] The short was chosen for the Canal J Prize at that year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival. [3] Shortly thereafter, she was hired by Marathon Animation to work on character design for the series Martin Mystery and storyboards for Totally Spies! [4]
Jenny released her first comic, the shojo manga-style Pink Diary, in 2005. [3] The Pink Diary series, published by Delcourt in France, [5] won the 2006 prize for Best Manga-Style Bande Dessinée from the French magazine Animeland. [6] It ran through 2008, [3] after which Jenny launched a new series, Mathilde, [7] followed by Sara et les Contes perdus. [8] She has also worked on a spin-off of Patricia Lyfoung's La Rose écarlate series. [9]
She also in 2003 became a founding member of the Chibimag comics studio, through which she has collaborated on various comic fanzines. [1]
Jenny lives in Eure-et-Loir, France, [10] where she frequently collaborates with her husband, the fellow comics creator Alexis Coridun. [1]
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