The organizers have unveiled the official selections of the works selected for the next Angoulême Comic Strip Festival. The Grand Jury of the 48th Festival will be chaired by Benoît Peeters.
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Even if the Angoulême comic book festival will not exist as usual (Covid obliges), the organizers are offering an event in two distinct moments. Initially, the month of January will be the time of the award ceremony (the Fauves) to the winners.
The Official Prize List of the International Comic Strip Festival will therefore be unveiled on Friday January 29, 2021. It is made up of 12 prizes called Fauves d’Angoulême. It will honor works published between December 1, 2019 and November 30, 2020 in the French language, distributed in bookstores in French-speaking countries, without distinction of country of origin. Several juries will award the Fauves d’Angoulême, chosen from among five lists of pre-selected works, lists made up by three selection committees brought together by the International Comic Strip Festival during the year 2020.
The official competition (75 pounds)
Details of the official selection
– Le Fauve d’Or (Best Album Award)
It honors the best album of the year, regardless of genre, style or geographic origin.
– The Fauves of Angoulême
- Special Jury Prize – It rewards a work which particularly marked the jury by its narration, its aesthetics and the originality of its choices.
- Revelation Award – It is awarded to the album of an author at the start of their career and who has published a maximum of three albums as a professional.
- Series Prize – It distinguishes a work intended to be published in more than three volumes, regardless of its total length.
- Audacity Prize – It rewards experimentation and formal innovation through an album with an inventive and innovative graphic style, using all the possibilities of comics to push its boundaries.
- Audience Award France Televisions – Eight titles will be chosen from the Official Selection by a committee of journalists and literature specialists from France Télévisions. Following a call for candidates launched by France Télévisions to its public, the comics will be offered for reading to 13 viewers. They will constitute the jury of readers who will elect the winner of this Prix du Public France Télévisions.
- Alternative comic price – Awarded by a specialized jury, it rewards the best non-professional publication, without distinction of geographical origin or periodicity, among around thirty achievements.
- Cultura high school student award – New prize created by the Festival and the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports in partnership with Cultura.
Step 1: from a selection of 15 albums from the Official Selection, 1,000 high school students will retain a “short list” of 5 titles.
Step 2: a jury of 10 high school students selected at random will meet to elect the winner from among the 5 designated albums.
Then, in June, the organizers still hope to be able to organize meetings with all the contributors to the event (authors, publishers, booksellers, etc.) and all comic strip enthusiasts. And this, of course, by implementing a number of actions in compliance with the health measures that will be in force.
Discover the double poster
Two posters for two stages of the Angoulême international comics festival – Edition 2021
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© Chloe Wary & Willy Ohm – 9e Art
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The Poitou house Le Lezard Noir once again selected
The publishing house Le Lézard Noir had already received prizes in previous editions.
For the 2021 edition, the manga Bad grass is one of only three manga selected this year in the official selection of the Angoulême festival (a poetic and social chronicle by Keigo Shinzo).
Another book is also in the 2021 selection of the festival, it’s the anthology Violence & Peace, by iconoclast Shinobu Kaze (selected for the heritage award).
