43 albums vying for the Fauves

The selection committee of the 47th Angoulême BD festival which will take place from January 30 to February 2, 2020 presented Thursday a selection of 43 albums vying for its prizes including the Fauve d’or for the best album of the year.

In addition to the Golden Fauve, the Angoulême Festival awards five other prizes: special jury prize, series prize, revelation prize, audacity prize and France Télévisions audience award. 10 titles will be chosen by journalists and specialists in literature from France Télévisions, particularly passionate about comics, from the official adult selection of the Festival.

The prizes will be awarded on February 1 by a jury of 7 members chaired this year by author Marion Montaigne (“You will die less stupid”, “In the combi of Thomas Pesquet” …). Other jury members include director Noémie Lvosky and singer Dominique A.

Seven other albums have been selected for the Heritage Prize, six albums are in the running for the Fauve polar SNCF, eight albums are in competition for the youth prize (for children aged 8 to 12) and eight other albums are in the running for the Young Adults Award. A total of 72 albums are in competition.

Among the albums in official competition, we find The wolf (Casterman) by Jean-Marc Rochette, awarded Wednesday with the Wolinski / Le Point prize and also in the running for the prize for comics critics.

Also featured in the official competition The Indies deceivers (Delcourt) by Alain Ayroles and Juanjo Guardino, The latest Atlas (Dupuis) ​​by Gwen de Bonneval, Fabien Vehlmann, Fred Blanchard and Hervé Tanquerelle and System preference (Denoël Graphic) by Ugo Bienvenu, three albums vying for the Landerneau comics prize which will be awarded on Monday.

We also find in the official selection the new Blueberry (Apache bitterness, Dargaud), a legendary comic character taken over by Christophe Blain and Joann Sfar who will be released in bookstores on December 6.

2020 has been declared the year of the comic strip by the Ministry of Culture. The Angoulême festival will be the first event of the year of comics.

Official selection

– Thor: Death of the Might Thor, By Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman (Panini Comics)
– The Indies cheating, By Alain Ayroles and Juanjo Guarnido (Delcourt)
– Dracula, of Georges Bess, after Bram Stoker (Glénat)
– System preference, of Ugo Bienvenu (Denoël Graphic)
– Blueberry. Apache bitterness, of Christophe Blain and Joann Sfar (Dargaud)
– Luminary, volume 1: Heat wave, of Luc Brunschwig and Stéphane Perger (Glénat)
– Mazes, volume 1, of Charles Burns (Cornelius)
– It was 2 times Arthur, of Carlé and Antico (Dupuis)
– Last summer, of Paolo Cattaneo (Misma)
– Billions of mirrors, of Robin Cousin (Flblb)
– The Castle of animals, volume 1: Miss Bengalore, of Xavier Dorison and Félix Delep (Casterman)
– In Waves, ofAJ Dungo (Casterman)
– The Tales of the Octopus, volume 2: A finder’s destiny, of Gess (Delcourt)
– Révolution,: tome 1: Liberté, of Florent Grouazel and Younn Locard (Actes Sud / L’An 2)
– Tulip and the sorcerers, of Sophie Guerrive (2024)
– The Boat of Theseus, volume 4, of Toshiya Higashimoto (Vega)
– Nagasaki, ofAgnès Hostache (The Black Lizard)
– War, of Marion Jdanoff (Super Loto Éditions)
– Skylight, of Joe Kessler (The Association)
– Descender, tome 6: The end of an ancient world, of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen (Urban Comics)
– Green algae. Forbidden history, ofInès Léraud and Pierre Van Hove (La Revue dessin / Delcourt)
– Berlin, III. City of Light, of Jason Lutes (Delcourt)
– Tomorrow, tomorrow, volume 2, By Laurent Maffre (Arte éditions / Actes Sud)
– Michel, son of fierce ages, of Pierre Maurel (The Employee of the Self)
– Dad Mom Son, of Lucas Méthé (Actes Sud)
– Dora, volume 4, of Minaverry (ed. L’Agrume)
– Act of God, of Giacomo Nanni (Right Here)
– Colila, of François Olislaeger (Actes Sud BD)
– Crossing, of Clément Paurd (2024)
– X-Men Grand Design, volume 2, ofEd Piskor (Panini Comics)
– I’m in the country with my mother, ofIsabelle Pralong and Irene de Santa Ana (Atrabile)
– L’Oisiveraie, of David Prudhomme (The Association)
– The wolf, of Jean-Marc Rochette (Casterman)
– Clyde Fans, of Seth (Delcourt)
– One morning with Miss Latarte, of Caroline Sury (Le Monte-en-l’air)
– In the abyss of time, of Gou Tanabe (ed. Ki-oon)
– The Last Atlas, volume 1, of Hervé Tanquerelle, Fred Blanchard, Fabien Vehlmann and Gwen de Bonneval (Dupuis)
– Sunday Love, of Dominique Goblet and Dominique Théate (Frémok)
– The King of bumblebees, of David de Thuin (ed. Glénat)
– Crazy Herbs (The new adventures of Lapinot), of Lewis Trondheim (The Association)
– Rose season, of Chloé Wary (Flblb)
– The tour, ofAndi Watson (Here and There)
– The Bowels of New York, of Julia Wertz (The Citrus)

Polar selection

– Cassandra Darke, by Posy Simmonds (Denoël Graphic)
– Uproar, of John Harris Dunning & Michael Kennedy (Almost Moon)
– The Detection Club, of Jean Harambat (Dargaud)
– Grass Kings, of Matt Kindt & Tyler Jenkins (Futuropolis)
– In the head of Sherlock Holmes, by Cyril Lieron Benoit Dahan (Ankama)
– No Direction, ofEmmanuel Moynot (Sarbacane)

Youth Selection

– The Vermeilles, by Camille Jourdy (Actes sud BD)
– The League of Super Feminists, by Mirion Malle (The city is burning)
– The Cat Club breaks the house, from Yoon-sun Park (Misma)
– Raowl, Beauty and the Awful, from Tebo (Dupuis)
– Pipistrelli, by Charlotte Pollet (Biscoto)
– Love letters from 0 to 10, by Thomas Baas after Susie Morgenstern (Rue de Sèvres)
– Radiant # 12, by Tony Valente (Ankama)
– My Hero Academia # 20, by Kohei Horikoshi (Ki-oon)

Teen selection

– The Snow Tiger, by Akiko Higashimura (The Black Lizard)
– Spirou, hope despite everything, part 2 by Emile Bravo (Dupuis)
– In a ray of sunshine, by Tillie Walden (Gallimard Jeunesse)
– The Sales Kids, by Peggy Adam (Atrabile)
– Siberian haikus, from Vile-Itadaki (Sarbacane)
– Celestial mechanics, by Merwan (Dargaud)
– Beastars # 6, by Paru Itagaki (Ki-oon)
– The Son of the Ursari, by Cyrille Pomès, Isabelle Merlet after Xavier-Laurent Petit (Rue de Sèvres)

Heritage Selection

– The Red Flowers, by Yoshiharu Tsuge (Cornelius Walt & Skeezix, by Frank King (2024)
– Stray Bullets, by David Lapham (Delcourt)
– Two sleeves and the beautiful, by Milton Gross (The round table)
– Red alert, by Tomaz Lavric (Here and There)
– Mutant world, by Jan Strnad & Richard Corben (Delirium) –
– The Green Hand and other stories, by Nicole Claveloux (Cornélius)

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