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Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2023
Entity authorityQ29830668
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Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante (My Quite Fascinating Life) is a blog BD (French webcomic in blog format) created by Pénélope Bagieu. Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante started in 2007 and launched Bagieu's career as a cartoonist. In the webcomic, Bagieu presents her own life experiences through the lens of the character Zoe. In 2012, Bagieu's blog was accessed 60,000 times per day, and a print edition was published by Delcourt.

Development

Cartoonist Pénélope Bagieu created Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante shortly after graduating from the Central Saint Martins school in London. The blog started in 2007, primarily because Bagieu was looking for something to do between two illustration jobs for publisher. Bagieu had been keeping an intimate drawn diary for a long time when she decided to start her blog. Bagieu became one of the pioneers of the "for girls" comics boom, though she has since tried to get rid of her image as a blogger, subverting her established style with Joséphine.

A print version of Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante was published by Delcourt in 2012.

Content

Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante is a general diary webcomic in which Bagieu presents snippets of her daily life.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with tout, fait and fascinante providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.