Yvette Lapointe was born 19 August 1912 in
Montreal. In 1932, she launched herself into comics and illustration, drawing on the relations between men and women and everyday life in the periodical ''
L'Illustration, where she contributed daily to the strip . A year later, she began her most famous series in the pages of La Patrie: , whose heroes are "two rascals", Réal and his sister Mimi Pistache. The series ran from May to August 1933. and La Presse''. After her marriage in 1943, she ended her professional career and then raised four sons, all mathematicians. She died on 5 September 1994. ==Legacy==