Aude Picault is a French cartoonist and picture books author. Picault was born in 1979. She graduated from the 'École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs', a renowned art university in Paris, in 2005. Picault started her comics career when in university with the slice-of-life Moi Je (2004). From 2006 to 2009 she collaborated as a cartoonist with the weekly French magazine Voici, while also working as a children's books writer and illustrator. During the same period, she was part of the web-comics collective Chicou-Chicou. Among her graphic novels are Papa (2006), Les Mélo Maniaks (2008), Transat (2009), the erotic Comtesse (2010), the travel comic diary Parenthèse Patagone (2015), Idéal Standard (2017) and Amalia (2022).