a beast comes out of the night

Today in Le Rayon BD, a first look back at the Angoulême International Comic Festival or rather on the winners of the Angoulême Festival since the public part of the Festival with meetings, dedications, and exhibitions will normally take place from June 24 to 27, 2021. Pending the “summer” edition, the traditional awards ceremony was chaired by Thomas VDB, who notably referred to the situation of comic book authors who continue to make themselves heard to demand the launch of a real consultation concerning their legal status, their social protection, the sharing of book revenues … Autrices-Auteurs en Action collective called for a boycott of the public session of the Festival if nothing advances in the coming months.

A diverse and eclectic track record

The winners of the 48th Angoulême Festival notably devote a good proportion of female authors like the Goscinny Prize for best screenplay awarded to Loo Hui Phang for Black out with Hugues Micol (Futuropolis), the Audacity Prize goes to Gabrielle Piquet for The Mechanics of the Sage at Atrabile, The Youth Prize (8 to 12 years old) at Sophie gerrive for The Friends Club published by 2024, the France Television Audience Prize was awarded to Léonie Bischoff for his Anaïs Nin on the sea of ​​lies, at Casterman, and the Revelation Prize was awarded to Maurane Mazars, for Dance !, published in Lombard.

La Fauve d’or 2021: a real masterpiece

Chaired by historian and theorist Benoît Peeters, the Jury of the 48th edition of the Angoulême Festival awarded the Fauve d’or for best album to The hunting accident, of the screenwriter David L. Carlson and cartoonist Landis Blair, translated from the American by Julie Sibony, published in France by Editions Sonatine.

Inspired by a true story, this first graphic novel is set in Chicago in 1959, where 11-year-old Charlie finds himself living with his father after his mother’s death. Her father Matt lives in a single, sparsely furnished room with books and a typewriter. He is blind. To his son who asks him why, he tells the story of a hunting party with friends, as a teenager, which would have gone wrong until Charlie learns the real story behind his blindness. dad.

The truth of the imagination

While David L. Carlson and Landis Blair had never worked together, the alchemy operates: from their collaboration will be born this masterful work in black and white, a perfect blend of noir novel and poetry, of great expressionist force and loaded with symbols and graphic finds. Inspired by Dante’s universe, this book and the drawing technique are reminiscent of the work of Emil Ferris, crowned at the Angoulême Festival in 2019, or even the drawing by Thomas Ott.

In almost 500 pages full of darkness and light, with a detailed design, the authors immerse us completely in these embedded stories that address major universal themes: the father-son relationship, evil, the power of literature, and redemption.

Awards of the Angoulême Festival 2021

• Fauve – Special Jury Prize: Dragman de Steven Appleby (Denoël Graphic)
• Fawn – Series price: Paul at home by Michel Rabagliati (The watermelon)
• Fauve – Audacity Award: The Mechanics of the Sage by Gabrielle Piquet (Attractive)
• Fawn – Revelation price: Dance ! by Maurane Mazars (Lombard)
• Fauve – High school student price: Man skin by Hubert and Zanzim (Glénat)
• Fauve – Audience Award France Televisions: Anaïs Nin, on the sea of ​​lies by Léonie Bischoff (Casterman)
• Fawn – Heritage Prize: The Scout de Lynd Ward (Mr. Toussaint Louverture)
• Fauve – Polar SNCF: GoSt111 by Mark Eacersall, Henri Scala and Marion Mousse (Glénat)
• Fauve – Youth Prize 12-16 years: Middlewest / Volume 1 by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona (Urban Comics)
• Fauve – Youth Prize 8-12 years old: The Friends Club by Sophie Guerrive (2024)
• Fauve – Price of the alternative comic strip: The Thick book of KUTI (Finland)
• René Goscinny Prize – 2021 best screenplay prize awarded to Loo Hui Phang, for Black Out, designed by Hugues Micol (Futuropolis)

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