The Angoulême International Comics Festival, which will take place from January 26 to 29, unveiled this Monday the albums in competition for this 50th edition. A total of 85 works will compete for one of the twelve prizes awarded this year. The grand jury will be presided over by Alexandre Astier.
Who will have the honors of the Angoulême 2023 festival? While the festival will award, at the end of January, twelve prizes at the end of its 50th edition – including the prestigious Fauve d’or, awarded to the best album of the year, but also the Special Jury Prize or the revelation – the great international event of comics has revealed the many names of the artists who will be in the competition this year.
Among the well-known faces who will compete inside the official selection, we can especially mention Riad Sattouf, who this year also signs one of the three posters of the festival and whose sixth and last part of “The Arab of the future” was released on November 24th. Another key figure of French comics, Blutch, winner of the Grand Prix de la ville d’Angoulême in 2009, is also included in this selection for his new book “La mer à potable”, like Jérémie Moreau, already awarded a Fauve d ‘O in 2018, this year in competition with “Les Pizzlys”.
Alexandre Astier president of the grand jury
Another big news, the festival has also announced the name of the president of the grand jury for this 50th edition. The mission was entrusted to director Alexandre Astier, a great lover of the ninth art, to whom we owe the Kaamelott series in particular.
GRAND JURY #AlexandreAstierdirector, actor, author, composer, he will be the President of the Grand Jury for this 50th edition! @AAstierOff pic.twitter.com/K1JTDyh4n7
— Angoulême Festival (@bdangouleme) November 28, 2022
Marie-Aude Murail, award-winning children’s author, will head the Youth Jury.
Even the Fauve of high school students, like the Goncourt of high school students, will be awarded by a jury made up of ten young people.
