And the Golden Fauve of the 49e edition of the Angoulême International Comics Festival (Charente) is attributed to… Listen pretty Marcia, by the Brazilian author Marcello Quintanilha (Editions here and there). The prize for the best album of the year salutes a surprising work, whose story takes on an incredible intensity over the pages.
Marcia is a nurse in Rio de Janeiro. She raises her daughter Jacqueline, aged about twenty, who slides more and more towards delinquency – she will end up in prison. As much as this young woman is ungrateful and selfish, Marcia is sunny, combative, generous. And it is this luminous portrait of a woman that takes shape over the pages, carried by a fluid and dynamic line.
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Marcia shares her life between her partner, her daughter and her job as a nurse. © Marcello Quintanilha / here and there
Out of love for her daughter and for her companion, Marcia is capable of really anything – including having one thrown in prison, and leaving the second.
This Fauve d’or refers to the author’s two previous works – Tungsten and Glass Talc – which use the same springs of a scenario with the precision of a watchmaker.
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This Fauve d’or was even greeted by the sun, long desired since the beginning of the festival. This morning of Saturday March 19, some had nevertheless preferred the shadow of a cellar in the city, where the prize for artistic courage, outside the official list, was awarded to Zainab Fasiki.
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Zainab Fasiki, prize for artistic courage (outside the official competition) for “Hshouma, body and sexuality in Morocco”. © West-France
his album Hshouma (shame) addresses the body and sexuality in Morocco to blast taboos with a lot of pedagogy.
Many “off” prizes, including that of the best rock comic strip for example, are also awarded on the sidelines of the official competition.
Polemics, heated debates and passion
To find your way around this tide of prizes, remember that the prestigious Grand Prize of the festival – which rewards a work that is part of the times – was awarded to Quebec author Julie Doucet.
Public, heritage, youth, series, etc. : thirteen prizes – the Fauves – appear on the official prize list.
For the record, one of these prices – the eco-Fauve Raja – created a controversy. Raja, a major sponsor of the event, and specialized in the distribution of packaging, was not considered sufficiently eco-friendly by the jurors, who all resigned.
Such is the life of the Angoulême festival, rich ina plural and dense production – up to the overflow and heated debates. Because if comics entered the industrial era, it never abandoned its passionate dimension.
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