The evening opened with a moving filmed tribute by Pierre Christin to his eternal sidekick Jean-Claude Mezieresand a thought for the authors who have died over the past two years.
Before announcing the Fauves, the prizes already revealed a few months ago but which the health situation had not allowed to be given were also recalled and given: prize of the Palace of the Golden Gate, awarded to The taste of concrete of Kei LamKonishi prize (best manga translation) awarded to Nathalie Lejeune for his work on Blue Periodthe René Goscinny prize awarded to Jean-David Morvan for the script of the album Madeleine, Resistantthe René Goscinny young screenwriter prize (less than 3 albums published) awarded to Raphael Meltz et Louise Moaty for the album of the livingand finally a reminder of the Discovery and Youth awards which we have already mentioned.
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2022 winners of the Fauves:
Fauve d’or
Listen, pretty Márcia – Par Marcello Quintanilha – here and there
Already favorite of the editorial staff of ActuaBD.com, the Fauve d’Or 2022 is a new success of the one who had already received the Polar Prize in 2016. Perennial social critic, it is an album that delves into the roots of Brazil contemporary and a beautiful portrait of a “powerful woman”. A thriller with powerful graphics, Marcello Quintanilha calls it a “thriller love story”.
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- The winner in the arms of his publisher, Serge Ewenczyk
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Fauve Special Jury Prize
of the living – Par Raphael Meltz, Louise Moaty & Simon Roussin – 2024
The Fauve Special Jury Prize is awarded to of the living at Éditions 2024. A favorite of the editorial staff, this comic book had made an impression with its unlikely trio: the author and essayist Raphael Meltzdirector and actress Louise Moatyand the designer Simon Roussin. Historical comic strip, it deals with the first French Resistance network, that of the Musée de l’homme, from its creation in 1940 to its dismantling by the occupier two years later. Major album by its narrative course, work of treatment of the sources and visuals with contrasting colors, it is an object which, as we had written, largely deserves its place in the prize list.
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- Raphaël Meltz, Louise Moaty & Simon Roussin
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beast of audacity
A Familiar Face – Par Michael DeForge – Attractive
The Beast of Audacity returns to A Familiar Face of Michel Deforge, at Atrabile. Audacious, to say the least. The Canadian author immerses us here in a decadent universe with an acid palette. Disturbing dystopia, Michel Deforge creates a futuristic world where a dictatorship of technology is enthroned: roads, cities, inhabitants, are regularly “updated” and change shape and place in an absolute loss of control.
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- The managers of Atrabile editions
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Fawn Revelation
Underground Life – Par Camille Lavaud Benito – Hammerhead Sharks
The Fauve Révélation is awarded to the very beautiful underground life of Camille Lavaud Benito published by Les Requins Marteaux. Dealing with the German occupation of France during the Second World War, it is in Périgord that the story of this courageous album takes place both visually and narratively. Neuvic’s attack on the Périgueux-Bordeaux train by the Resistance leaves an important mark here; this album is the first volume.
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- Camille Lavaud Benito
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Fawn of the Series
Spirou – Hope Despite Everything: Part Three – Par Emile Bravo – Dupuis
The Fauve of the Series is awarded to Spirou, hope despite everythinga third part of the masterpiece ofEmile Bravo at Dupuis. The Resistance continues to be talked about since this album features the heroic Spirou of the Second World War after a second volume of very high quality published in 2019. With a dramatic depth, Spirou and Fantasio criss-cross the Flat Country to restore of hope to discomfited souls.
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- In the absence of Emile Bravo, Stéphane Beaujean, director of Dupuis
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Fauve Heritage
Stuck Rubber Baby – Par Howard Cruse – Casterman
The Fauve Patrimoine returns to Stuck Rubber Baby d’Howard Cruse, who left us in 2019 at the age of 75. A leading figure in American comics, Howard Cruse was the founder of the magazine Gay Comicsincluding the 1995 masterpiece Stuck Rubber Baby had received the Eisner Prize for best album in 1996 and Critics’ Prize at Angoulême in 2002. This reissue of Casterman is a monument of American underground comics.
Read also: – Death of Howard Cruse
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- Benoît Mouchart, editorial director of Casterman, a publisher very attached to heritage
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Fauve Polar SNCF
The Notch – Par Antoine Maillard – Cornelius
The Fauve Polar SNCF is no surprise The Notch d’Antoine Maillard Editions Cornelius. This thriller sets the stage for a story Twin Peaks where a few uncomfortable teenagers, an unknown killer, and a normal-looking village are brought together in a soft yet assertive line. Antoine Maillard manages to go beyond the clichés to create an atmosphere of film noir, with the background of pivotal adolescence and the madness of an absurd world.
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- Antoine Maillard
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Eco-Fauve Raja Award
Mégantic – A Train in the Night – Par Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny & Christian Quesnel – Eco-society
The Eco-Fauve Raja Prize is awarded to Mégantic, a train in the night d’Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny et Christian Quesnel at Ecosociety. A work of revolt, it tackles the dramatic events of a train loaded with oil derailing in the heart of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, taking 47 lives all at once and disfiguring the small municipality forever. Militant album and tribute to the victims, it is a necessary album.
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- Christian Quesnel and Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny, who had a very committed and very fair speech during the award ceremony
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Fauve Audience Award France Television
The Great Void – Par Léa Murawiec – 2024
The Fauve Public Prize France Television is awarded to The Great Void of Léa Murawiec to the 2024 editions. This album, also in the running for the France Bleu – ActuaBD prize, fully deserves its place in the list. This editorial favorite has for heroine Manel Naher who, in an impersonal megalopolis, survives thanks to the existence of her name. This young author with impactful graphics signs with this first album a fiction full of life and a reflection on our world.
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- Léa Murawiec
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Fawn of the High School Students
Yojimbot T. 1 – Par Sylvain Rest – Dargaud
A nice post-apocalyptic saga that mixes robots and samurai fights in the rules of the art. A very special album with a title derived from a contraction of a samurai film byAkira Kurosawa from 1961 and “bot”, abbreviated from “robot”. From the outset, an explosive universe is revealed before our eyes, mixing sword fights and robot-warriors.
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- Sylvain Rest
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Fauve Alternative Comics Prize
Bento by Radio as Paper (France)
Pack of six booklets edited by Pierre Maurel where we also found the signatures of Matthias Lehmann, Noah van Sciver, Delphine Panique, Lucien Gurbert, Maxim Cain, JC Menu, Alessandro Tota, Simon Lamouret, Elizabeth Holleville, Simon Beuret, Anne Simon, Lea Murawiec, Benjamin Adam, Fanny Grosshans, Jérôme Bihan. Excuse a bit…
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