On Sunday, November 17, join Académie des Beaux-Arts member and comic author Catherine Meurisse, author and artist Nora Krug, and moderator Philippe Labaune for a conversation on illustrating healing and the art of comics as a pathway through trauma. 

The conversation will take place in English and will be followed by a book signing. This event is free with RSVP. Click here for tickets. 

This event is co-organized with Villa Albertine, and is a part of Albertine’s 10th Anniversary Celebration. 

CATHERINE MEURISSE is a French illustrator, press cartoonist, and comic book author, trained in Modern Letters and graduated from the Estienne School and the Decorative Arts of Paris. She joined Charlie Hebdo in 2005 and has since contributed to various newspapers (Libération, Le Monde), as well as publishing several comics and children’s books. Her work includes the acclaimed La Légèreté (New York Review of Books, 2025), which reflects on her recovery after the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, and Les grands espaces (Dargaud), which won the 2019 Prix Artémisia in 2019. Catherine Meurisse was a Villa Kujoyama resident in 2018 and became the first comic book author to join the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2020. 

NORA KRUG is a German-American author and artist. She is the author and illustrator of the graphic memoir Belonging (Scribner), the illustrator of adaptation of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, and an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York. Her drawings and visual narratives have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, and Le Monde diplomatique. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Maurice Sendak Foundation, Fulbright, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and has received gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and the New York Art Directors Club. She was named Illustrator of the Year by the Victoria and Albert Museum and was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography in 2019. 

Photos credits: © Rita Scaglia / © Nina Subin