Christine Roche facts for kids

Christine Roche, born in 1939, is a talented artist from France and Canada. She is an illustrator, cartoonist, teacher, and filmmaker. She lives and works in London, England. Her amazing artwork has been featured in many books, magazines, and national newspapers. Today, she focuses on painting.

About Christine Roche

Christine Roche has illustrated many books for both children and adults. She has worked with top publishers. She also created animated films for Channel 4 and UNICEF. She taught at several colleges, including the London College of Communication, the Royal College of Art, and the National Institute of Design in India.

Roche drew cartoons for a publication called Spare Rib. Later, in 1979, she helped start and publish her own magazine called Sourcream. She worked with Jo Nesbitt, Liz Mackie, and Lesley Ruda on this project. More women cartoonists from Britain joined for Sourcream No. 2, which was published in 1981.

Christine Roche was part of different groups, known as collectives. These included the Kids Book Group. She also joined the Hackney Flashers collective. This group of photographers started in the 1970s. They created exhibitions about "Women at Work" and "Who's Holding the Baby?".

She wrote a book called I'm Not a Feminist But... in 1985. She then turned this book into an animated film with Marjut Rimminen.

She also helped direct two short animated films. These were The Stain (1991) and Someone Must Be Trusted (1987). You can watch The Stain online at the Internet Archive.

In addition, Christine Roche designed the characters for the children's TV cartoon series Treasure.

Her work can be found in two important collections of cartoons. One is Funny Girls – Cartooning for Equality (1997), edited by Diane Atkinson. The other is The Inking Woman: 250 Years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain (2018). This book was edited by Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate.

Films by Christine Roche

Christine Roche has worked on several animated films:

• The Stain (1991)
• Someone Must Be Trusted (1987) – This was one of four short animated films about women and the law.
• I'm Not a Feminist But... (1985)