MÉNAGE À 3
Ménage à 3, created by Gisèle Lagacé and David Lumsden was influenced by the television show Three’s Company (1977-2023) but set in Montréal and much more risqué. It tells the adventures and misadventures of three principal characters: Gary working at a call center and striving to be a cartoonist, Suzz a bi-sexual guitarist looking for a band and Desirée a waitress and cook who is love hungry. As Gisèle describes it “In Ménage à 3, Gary’s still a virgin at the start of the series. He’s not doing well with women, and the other characters are trying to get him better at that.” Yet she also describes Gary as having a rich inner life, a dream of being a cartoonist and having a supportive friend group. It was consistently in the top fifty most popular web comics and in 2018, Gisèle won the Joe Shuster Award for “Webcomics Creator”. The series ended in 2019 but Sticky Dilly Buns and Pixie Trix Comics are both spin offs from it.