Diane Obomsawin
|birth_place =
Quebec, Canada
|occupation = Author, illustrator, filmmaker
|genre = Lesbian love, graphic novel, animated film
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Diane Obomsawin (born 1959) is an
Abenaki Quebec-based author,
illustrator and
animated filmmaker, often known by her pseudonym,
Obom. Some of her notable works have explored the issue of
lesbian first love, including a 2014
graphic novel, published in
French as ''J'aime les filles'' by
L'Oie de Cravan and in English as ''On Loving Women'' by
Drawn & Quarterly. ''J'aime les filles'' was adapted as a 2016
National Film Board of Canada animated short, ''
I Like Girls (J'aime les filles)'', which received the Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short at the 40th
Ottawa International Animation Festival.
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