ANGOULEME FESTIVAL – The official prize list of the International Comic Strip Festival awarded this Friday, January 29, 2021 its Golden Fawn for best album to The Hunting Accident by Americans Landis Blair and David Carlson. Discover all the albums and authors awarded in 2021.
[Mis à jour le 29 janvier 2021 à 20h13] The winners of the Angoulême 2021 festival were revealed this Friday, January 29, 2021, during a closed-door ceremony from the main hall of the Angoulême theater, chaired by the screenwriter and writer Benoît Peeters and hosted by the comedian Thomas VDB. The golden fauve of the 2021 list goes to the American author David L. Carlson and to the American illustrator Landis Blair for their album The Hunting Accident, “a beautiful tribute to the power of the noir novel and the greatness of literature “that takes place in Chicago in 1959, taken from real events. Check out all of the award-winning albums below.
The winners of the 48th edition, during which the mythical Fauve d’Or was unveiled, was unveiled on Friday, January 29, 2021. A new prize has appeared: the beast of the Lycéens Cultura. The Grand Prix will be awarded during the official opening ceremony of the Festival in June. Discover the 2021 winners:
Le Fauve d’Or – Best Album Award rewards the best album of the year, whatever its genre, style or geographical origin. It is The hunting accident through David L. Carlson and Landis Blair.
This price rewards a work for its narrative and graphic qualities and / or the originality of its choices. In 2021, it is awarded to Dragman from Steven Appleby published by Denoël Graphic.
This is a new award that appeared this year 2021 which is awarded to Man skin, a graphic novel by Hubert and Zanzim published by Glénat editions.
This prize rewards an experimental album. In 2021, it is awarded to The Mechanics of the Sage from Gabrielle Piquet published by Atrabile editions.
The Series Prize rewards a work composed of several volumes (three minimum) is awarded to Paul at home from Michel Rabagliati published by La Pastèque.
Which album wins the Youth Prize of the Angoulême 2021 festival?
The Youth Prize rewards a work intended for a young audience (8-12 years old), awarded by a jury made up of children, as well as by authors. In 2021, the Youth Prize was awarded to The friends club T.1 from Sophie guerrive to the 2021 editions.
The Young Adult Prize rewards a work intended for adolescents from 13 years old, awarded by a jury made up of adolescents, as well as by authors. In 2021, the Young Adult Prize was awarded to tome 1 de Middlewest through Skottie Young and Jorge Corona published by Urban Comics.
The Heritage Prize rewards a work in the world history of comics, and its editorial work allowing it to be rediscovered. In 2021, the prize is awarded to The Scout, engraved stories of Lynd Ward published by Monsieur Toussaint Louverture.
The Polar SNCF prize rewards a comic book thriller, whether it is a creation or an adaptation of a literary work. In 2021, it is awarded to GoSt 111 from Henri Scala, Mark Eacersall and Marion Mousse published by Glénat editions.
Which album won the René Goscinny prize at the 2021 Angoulême festival?
This prize rewards, each year, a screenwriter for his entire career. It was awarded this year 2021 to Loo Hui Phang for his graphic novel Black-out. It will be dedicated to an exhibition in 2022.
This prize rewards a translator for the translation of manga into French. This year 2021, the prize is awarded to Miyako Slocombe for his translation of manga Tokyo Tarareba Girls.
He will not have released more than 3 albums to receive this award. This year 2021, the prize is awarded to Dance ! from Maurane Mazars published by Le Lombard.
The France Television Audience Prize is awarded to Anaïs Nin: on the sea of lies from Léonie Bischoff at Casterman.
This prize is selected from around thirty non-professional publications in competition, without distinction of geographical origin or periodicity. In 2021, the prize is awarded to The Thick Book of Kuti, an anthology of Kuti magazine, presenting the history of the only contemporary Finnish comic magazine through its 50 first issues.
The 48th Angoulême Festival takes place in two stages due to the health context of the coronavirus. If the Fauves’ handover took place on Friday, January 29, 2021, the festival will take place over 4 days June 24-27, 2021.
Lhe 48th edition of the international comic strip festival will take place, for the general public, June 24-27, 2021. It’s a first for 48 years, en due to the Covid-19 health crisis … It is not, however, going to go without a hitch. Nearly 600 comic book authors, fighting against the precariousness of the profession, want to take advantage of the event to question the status of authors, 50% of whom live below the poverty line, earning less than the minimum wage … A malaise all the more aggravated by the epidemic of the coronavirus. These authors also question reforms that are slow to arrive.
“We will not go to the ceremony, or to the festival in June, if nothing happens. We took advantage of the Covid to bury the promises Macron made to us last year when coming to Angoulême. The pandemic is not Not an excuse. On the contrary: we could have taken advantage of this time to sit down and discuss, considers the latter. The anger is there. We can no longer continue to play the game of the festival, even if we are well aware that it is not responsible for the situation. But it is a showcase and a way for us to be able to be listened to “, explain to the Parisian the authors and comic writers Gwen de Bonneval and Fabien Vehlmann, authors of the series The Last Atlas whose volume 2 appears in the 2021 selection of the Angoulême Festival.
The Autrices-Auteurs en action collective has for its part published a call for boycott : “We, the signatory authors and authors will apply the total boycott of the public side of the Angoulême Festival, next June, if no real and concrete act is taken by then, with regard to our professional status, to our representation and a fair rebalancing of the Book chain, of which the State and your government cannot remain mere observers “, bringing together to date nearly 665 signatures.
When will the 2021 Angoulême Festival Grand Prix be awarded?
The Grand Prix of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, the ultimate reward for a comic book author, following a vote of 1,200 authors, is awarded during the official opening ceremony of the Festival, June 24, 2021.
Last year, Emmanuel Guibert won it, and it will be an opportunity to discover the exhibition dedicated to him in June 2021. He is particularly known for his youth series including The sardine from space or The teacher’s daughter in collaboration with Joann Sfar. His early career had been more marked by works inspired by history such as Brown, a work that depicts the rise of Nazism, then Alan’s War, a series of comics about an American soldier who arrived on European soil in early 1945.
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Between 2003 and 2006, the series of three documentary comic books The photograph (published by Dupuis), mixes his drawings with photographs by Didier Lefèvre which tell the story of a humanitarian mission in Afghanistan in 1986. Emmanuel Guibert was recently crowned, in 2017 with the Prix Goscinny in Angoulême and in January 2018, the Festival international comic strip had already devoted an exhibition to him. “Each of his albums is a divine surprise “
summarized the French journalist specializing in comics Patrick Gaumer.Emmanuel Guibert was in 2020 in competition with the French Catherine Meurisse and the American Chris Ware. In 2019, it’s the Japanese Rumiko Takahashi, nicknamed the “Manga Princess” and author of Maison Ikkoku (Juliet i love you) and Ranma 1/2, which won the award.
The official poster of this double 2021 edition is signed by Chloé Wary and Willy Ohm, an original duo with complementary visions. Like the 48th edition of the Festival, the poster was designed in two parts:
- 1 day ticket (Thursday / Friday / Sunday): 19 euros / 16 euros in presale / 11 euros for 10-17 year olds
- 1-day ticket (Saturday): 25 euros / 22 euros in presale / 11 euros for 10-17 year olds
- 4-day ticket: 45 euros / 40 euros in presale / 25 euros for 10-17 year olds
- Free admission applies to children under 10 years old.
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