The storylines presented in Les Culottées are generally somewhat humorous, but Bagieu never focuses too much on comedy, nor does she present the historical information too densely, creating a balance. Some of the women featured in Les Culottées include Joséphine Baker, Tove Jansson, Clementine Delait, Margaret Hamilton, Josephina Van Gorkum, Nzinga, and Frances Glessner Lee. Many of the women Bagieu has covered in this series are frequently overlooked by historians, though she has also depicted several well-celebrated women. Pénélope Bagieu's Les Culottées is presented as a series of vignettes of historical women of various time periods and nationalities. In 2020 it was adapted as an animated series of 30 episodes for France Télévisions. Translated into 11 languages, Brazen was positively received and received an Eisner Award in 2019. The English version has only 29 stories instead of the original 30, as 'Phoolan Devi, the Indian Queen of Bandits' was removed because it included the rape of a ten-year-old girl by her husband. The work was released In English as one volume with the title Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World. Each one contained fifteen short stories. The stories were split into two print publications in France with the subtitle Des Femmes Qui ne Font Que ce Qu’elles Veulent (Women Who Do as They Please). Bagieu produced one comic a week from January to October 2016, and eventually released the comics in book form. Each comic features a woman from the past or present with an unusual or inspiring story.

Published on the website of Le Monde, Bagieu uses Les Culottées to tell short biographical stories about women. Les Culottées is a blog BD (French webcomic in blog format) written by Pénélope Bagieu in 2016.

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