The winners of the international comic strip festival in Angoulême are complete : Among others, Marcello Quintanilha received the golden fauve for “Listen, pretty Marcia”. The Brazilian cartoonist was awarded for his graphic novel “Listen, pretty Marcia”, which depicts the life of a nurse in a Rio favela.
Feminist author Zainab Fasiki was awarded the courage prize. Moroccan feminist cartoonist Zainab Fasiki won the prize for artistic courage on Saturday March 19, 2022, awarded each year on the sidelines of the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
The 27-year-old is known for her denunciation of sexism and her promotion in her drawings of the freedom of women to dress and express themselves as they see fit.
She published in 2019 “Hshouma: body and sexuality in Morocco”, a word which means “shame” and which is used to silence those who dare to assert their opinion.
“Sexual and bodily liberation was not invented by other countries, it is our natural needs and our rights, regardless of our nationality,” she said, quoted in a statement from the jury.
He rewarded the Moroccan, an engineer who went to war against taboos, “for these words, her courage and the beauty of her work”.
The prize was created in 2016 by the promoters of the “Off of Off” of Angoulême, under the name of “balls in the ass prize for artistic courage”, in order to reward an author defying censorship.
During the previous edition in 2020, it went to the Algerian Nime (Abdelhamid Amine of his real name), critic of the regime sentenced to prison for a political satire denouncing the influence of the military in the country.
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