Le Fauve d’or for a black work, gender and sexuality in all colors: Angoulême 48 awarded its prizes without an audience due to the health crisis.
The great forgotten of the winners of the 2021 edition of the international comic book festival is Chris Ware, and his latest masterpiece, Rusty Brown, published by Delcourt. “Standout”, said the jury. Chris Ware can now obtain nothing less than the Grand Prix of the city with the vote of all the authors who will speak in June, just before the second round of this festival fragmented because of the health crisis.
Le Fauve d’or, the prize for the best album goes to The hunting accident by David L. Carlson and Landis Blair. This is the screenwriter’s first comic strip and the first foray into the publisher Sonatine’s comic strip. It is a thick book, a priori not very engaging, on which the jury is full of praise.
The object, already, impresses. It’s a very long, massive, rather dark comic strip, between the dark universe of the prison and that, just as dark of Dante’s Hell.
Benoît Peeters, president of the jury–
With Superman and other Spiderman, we knew that superheroes like to put on tights before taking action. Never, however, had we gone as far as Englishman Steven Appleby. It is enough for his character Dragman to dress as a woman to recover her superpowers. In humor, Dragman is a plea for the fight against gender stereotypes. Posted at Denoël Graphic, Dragman receives the special jury prize.
This current sensitivity for questions of gender and sexuality is found in the price of boldness which highlights the work of the young author Maurane Mazars, who signs Dance ! published by Lombard.
The public prize rewards the Swiss Léonie Bischoff and her evocation of the erotic writer Anaïs Nin, Anaïs Nin, on the sea of lies, published by Casterman.
In the same spirit, the price of high school students went to Man skin Hubert and Zanzim, at Glénat. By receiving his prize, Zanzim has not forgotten the comic book authors who denounce their often deplorable economic and social situation. They threaten not to come to the Angoulême festival in the spring. Zanzim will do like them.
The prize for the series goes to Canada with Michel Rabagliati and his sympathetic autofictional saga.
René Goscinny Award, best screenwriter of the year, Loo Hui Phang, for Black-out (with Hugues Micol in the drawing), Futuropolis editions.
Find here all the prizes awarded on the occasion of this 48th Angoulême festival.
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