The CONTACT Project in Comics
In 2023-2024, our research-team met 15 sperm donors and 12 egg donors from the United States, Australia and Canada, who have have been contacted by people conceived from their donations. Drawing on their stories and the study-findings, we created 9 fictional stories, complemented by informative texts that will allow readers to better understand their experience.
Credits
Design and scientific coordination: Anaïs Martin
Coordination and script: Anaïs Martin & Jean-Charles Andrieu de Lévis
Illustrations: Laurent Masri-Clermont
Script-writing assistance and scientific-data preparation: Simon Desjardins
English adaption: Andrea Zanin, Anaïs Martin & Simon Desjardins
Production and scientific mentoring: Isabel Côté
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
The STORIES Project in Comics
In the winter 2019 and spring 2020, our research team met 32 donor-conceived teenagers, in Ontario and Quebec, to know more about how they make sense of their mode of conception and their family.
Find out what they had to say in these comic strips.
To see the comic strips, please click on the links.
Episode 1 – The Perception of the Donor
Episode 3 – The Donor Siblings
Credits
Design: Isabel Côté and Sabrina Zeghiche
Script: Isabel Côté, Sabrina Zeghiche, Renée-Pier Trottier Cyr, Marie-Christine Williams-Plouffe and Annabelle Boudreault-Trudeau
Drawings: Laure Barrière
Production and scientific direction: Isabel Côté
Funding: Social Science and Humanities Research Council