Draw delightfully silly stuff, and may every doodle be an opus worthy of the family fridge.
Fridge Door Opera is a French-Californian author-illustrator specializing in picture books for young children and zany doodles for all ages.
Her work blends fun, lighthearted themes with weird and whimsical visuals, characterized by bright primary colors and a distinct style influenced by traditional tattoos and punk culture.
She’s been doodling and writing little stories since she was a kid, and now she does it for a living. Ain’t life great?
Fridge Door Opera is based in Paris where she lives a happy little life with her loving partner and their two wonderful children, both of whom are final approvers of her children’s books.
Seeking Global Literary Representation
In April 2026, Fridge Door Opera published her first two books This Is Not a Block and You Don't Know Rats, and their French editions Ceci n'est pas un bloc and Tu ne connais pas les rats !.
She currently has 2 additional picture book dummies for Inch Worm Doesn’t Give an Inch (English) and the second in the “You Don’t Know…” series You Don't Know Spiders! (English & French), with several more in development.
She means business.
Full member of The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Fridge Door Opera works across English and French markets and is seeking global literary representation.
Why “Fridge Door Opera”?
Someone once told her her art looked like “little kids' stuff on a fridge.” They weren't wrong. Years later, she was putting her own kids' art on the family fridge. All masterpieces. She now takes that old slight as high praise.
fridge door
noun; the place where you display your most precious drawings
opera
noun; plural of opus meaning an artistic work
An Interview with Hey Dom
Self-taught artist Fridge Door Opera has always drawn for herself, filling notebooks that were tucked away and never shown. Her passion first took root in childhood while leafing through the illustrated books of Eric Carle and Leo Lionni, only to be rekindled years later by a brief encounter with an elderly stranger on the street and... a gift card.
Since then, armed with an iPad and an eclectic playlist shared with her friend, she explores a world that is funny, strange, and a touch melancholic. Her work draws inspiration from vintage cartoons, old-school tattoo art, and the raw joy of drawing alongside her children.
