Catel

Catel Muller, known as Catel, is a French illustrator and comic-book author whose work spans children’s publishing, graphic novels, and portraiture. She began her illustration career in 1990 and has since contributed to around a hundred books for children, working with many specialist publishers. In the early 2000s, she also helped open up contemporary, female-focused themes in comics. Catel is particularly known for biographical works celebrating remarkable women, which she describes as bringing the “hidden women of history” into view; these books have found international success.

Her body of work includes adult albums, graphic novels, comic-book series, collective projects, and children’s books, alongside press illustrations, covers, posters, and other commissioned drawings. The website presents her creative projects and portfolio, including sketches, portraits, murals, original artwork, prints, and location studies. It also shares biographical information, awards, a bibliography, news, publications, and exhibition details. Through her varied work, Catel combines storytelling and illustration to explore notable lives, contemporary subjects, and imaginative experiences for readers of different ages.