Just 15 years old, Victor Kientz, a young designer from La Manche, was awarded a Petit Fauve d’Or at the last comic book festival in Angoulème.
Posted on Feb 9, 20 at 6:46 p.m.
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It was on her birthday. The Wednesday January 29 latest, Victor Kientz just barely 15 years and gets into a car with her parents and younger brother Simon, since Hebecrevon ((Handle) where they live, for an unforgettable trip.
“We stopped in Poitiers and we blew out the candles at the hotel! “Says Emmanuelle, her mother who is a social worker at Saint-Lô.
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In the footsteps of his teacher
A night that Victor fully savored with the idea of the beautiful gift that awaits him the next day in Angoulême. The young designer explains:
A Petit Fauve d’or was awarded to me by a jury at the International Comic Book Festival in which I participated and I went to get my prize.
The thursday january 30, a beautiful ceremony was organized at the theater of this prefecture town of Charente. “There was the President of the Republic and the Minister of Culture”, recalls Victor, rewarded for this prize Little Golden Fawn who also dedicated nineteen other boys and girls under the age of 20 in the category School comics.
They were 6,000 at the start and only 600 tests were selected for the competition by the jury which also awarded Small Fauves of silver and bronze.
So what is the Golden Fawn? This is the prize for the best school comic book album, published in French the previous year. Victor Kientz, in the 3rd class at Jean-Monnet College in Marigny-le-Lozon, therefore gave his work in March 2019 when he was still in 4th. He remembers :
I had made two drawing boards, in A4 format, where we see a real estate agent showing a house after a nuclear accident in the city. During this visit, he finds himself facing a monster, a mutant.
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Rebelote next year
If our teenage Manchois is gifted with his pencil from a very young age by giving forms and lives to characters and landscapes, it is his art teacher, Sébastien Samson, who emancipated him, and for good reason.
My teacher is a comic book author, that encouraged me and in addition, he had the same distinction as me when he was my age.
In Victor’s room, on a shelf, a Little Silver Fawn, won in 6th, already showed a promising future. Passionate about World War II and planes, the budding artist has other strings to his bow. “I am currently making a Corsair with my Dad”.
Vincent, his father, is a specialized technical educator in Saint-Lô and before, he worked as a cabinetmaker. For now, the son has not said his last word. With a smile, Victor announces:
The month of March is coming and I will try my luck again for the 2021 Angoulême Festival.
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