Fauve d’or for Brazil

A Brazilian, Marcello Quintanilha, installed for several years in Barcelona, ​​went on the stage of the theater of Angoulême, Saturday March 19, to receive the Fauve d’or for the best album of the year of this 49th Angoulême International Comics Festival pour Listen, pretty Marcia.

Characters, story, drawing: Marcello Quintanilha’s book, Listen, pretty Marcia, has all the qualities of a great comic strip. A woman, worn out by life, with a somewhat heavy physique, generous in her work as a nurse at the hospital, must face the erratic behavior of her daughter, so inconsistent as to fall under the thumb of a gang from the favelas from Rio.

Marcello Quintanilha manages to breathe life into his heroine’s daily struggle. Because, pudgy in her shorts, cramped in her T-shirts, Marcia is indeed an everyday heroine. To illuminate what could have been a painful tale, the cartoonist chose an electric color palette, gifting his native Brazil with baby-green skies and candy-pink walls.

Listen, pretty Marcia, by Marcello Quintanilhapublished here and there.

Of the winners of this 49th edition, to retain the Prize for the series for a masterpiece for all audiences, the Spirou by Emile Bravo. After wondering what he could have done with the little Belgian bellboy at the Moustic hotel, who appeared before the war in the magazines of the Dupuis house – the modern adventurer with whom generations of children identified themselves – Émile Bravo s is launched in a long-running graphic novel, whose fourth and penultimate volume will be published in a few weeks.

At the release of the previous episode, the cartoonist told us of his ambition to write a story that could convince of the uselessness of wars. A message that resounds bitterly at the time of the invasion of Ukraine.

Spirou hope despite everythingby Emile Bravopublished by Dupuis.

The Angoulême jury awarded its Special Prize to the album of the living by Raphaël Meltz, Louise Moati and Simon Roussin, published in 2024.

of the living recounts the resistance network of the Musée de l’Homme, one of the first to be formed in 1940, in occupied Paris and which will be decimated the following year. the authors have drawn all of the dialogues from period documents.

the Fauve Prix du public rewards a book that caused a sensation at the end of last summer: The Great Void (2024 editions) reveals a young author, Léa Murawiec, a signature to follow.

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