“Hello, Me Pretty” a graphic novel by Line Gamache

This graphic novel is a Quebec folk art treasure. Hello, Me Pretty is the English edition of Té malade, toi! (Les 400 coups), which received an honourable mention “for exceptional work” from the Bédélys jury of the Quebec Library Association in 2004. It is the story of the author’s mentally disabled sister and their adventures growing up in a small community just outside Montreal, with Expo ‘67 and the FLQ crisis as part of the historical backdrop. It is a story of people’s intolerance and lack of understanding, but mostly a story about being different. It is also a valuable glimpse into one family’s personal trials and tribulations, woven into the tapestry of Quebec’s rich culture and history. In the tradition of David B’s bestselling graphic novel Epileptic or the popular film C.R.A.Z.Y.

This is the first of many graphic novels from underground Québécois artists. Conundrum press is committed to translating the work of these established artists and exposing it to the rest of North America.

Line Gamache completed a degree in visual arts at Concordia University in 1989. She is known as a painter, a sculptor, and an experimental artist. Line Gamache has had her work published in a variety of anthologies, including the celebrated 2000 page Comix 2000 (l’Association) which contains work by some of the world’s best underground comic artists. Her work also appears in Cyclope and in l’Enfance du cyclope (Les 400 coups) and in the English anthology Cyclops (conundrum). In 2006, she wrote her first children’s story, Mademoiselle Hiver Winter, illustrated by Jean-Charles Sarrazin and published by Éditions L’École des Loisirs in France.

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