Biography
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Lucie Lomova was born in Prague. Lucie studied dramaturgy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. While still at university, she began to publish cartoons and created two characters of small mice ANČA AND PEPÍK in cooperation with her sister Ivana, now a painter. Their first comic book was released in the spring of 1989.
Lucie completed her university studies that same year and received her first employment in the North Moravian Theater in the town of Šumperk. The so-called Velvet Revolution came about only three months later and Lucie, who had been drawing continuously from her childhood, decided to leave the theater, return to Prague and work as a freelance reviewer of culture.
She soon gave up this career, however, and accepted an offer to continue with the series of ANČA AND PEPÍK, this time carrying out both the drawing and the story lines. She consequently published these stories in the most well-known and essentially only Czech children's comics magazine Čtyřlístek (Four Leaf Clover) from 1990 up to 1999. The stories met with considerable popularity amongst both children and their parents and were later published in collected form in two book editions, also in Spanish, Catalan and French. The author also worked on an animated series based on the stories of Anča and Pepík, which was produced by Czech Television (2017, 2022).
Lomová brought the series to a close after ten years of work and began to get more involved in the areas of illustrations, book covers and other comics. By coincidence she established contacts with Thierry Groensteen, a renowned French comics theorist and the founder of the publishing house Editions de l´An 2 which published her first comics album for adults ANNA CHCE SKOČIT (Anna en cavale) (Anna Wants to Jump) in 2006. This graphic novel was well received by critics and consequently came out in Czech, Polish and German editions.
In 2006, the theatre magazine SAD published the comic Tyl´s guard, which was later translated into English by Electrocomics.
She returned to her work for children with the book THE GREATEST CZECH FAIRY TALES (Práh, 2008), where she adapted five well-known fairy tales by Karel Jaromír Erben into comics. This book was published in nine languages.
Lomová has published numerous comics in various magazines, in both Czech and international collections and anthologies (Aargh, Stripburger, etc.) and has also drawn comics about English history for the magazine Bridge which is focused on teaching English to secondary school students.
Since 2011, she has been working with the Déčko website on Czech Television, especially on the artwork for the popular Advent calendars.
In 2010 she spent two months in residence at the Maison des auteurs in Angoulême, where she worked on her graphic novel SAVAGES, which she finished in February 2011 in Linz (Atelierhaus Salzamt). Her next comic book was the detective story KNOCK ´EM DEAD (2014), which was published simultaneously in France under the title Sortie des artistes. For the centenary of the French Institute in Prague, she created a short comic, THE INSTITUTE REMEMBERS, which was published in 2021 in a bilingual edition.
Her last comic book so far is the comic diary EVERY DAY IS NEW (Labyrint, 2022).
She has taught comics creative writing at the Josef Škvorecký Literary Academy in Prague for two years (2009-2011), in 2011 - 2014 she worked at Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at Pilsen.
She is the winner of three Muriel Awards and the Golden Ribbon. In 2022 she was awarded the French Order of Arts and Letters with the rank of knight.