Coline Hégron, originally from Contrière in the south of the Channel, won the first prize at the end of January in the “young talents” category at the 48th edition of the Angoulême Comics Festival.
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Quick reminder: what is the Angoulème comic book festival?
In a normal year (without a health crisis!), The Angoulème festival is the most important event in France for the 9th art. It takes place in June, 1,500 authors, more than 200 publishing houses and 200,000 visitors meet there each year. Several prizes reward the authors, the “golden fauve” is the most prestigious.
A category rewards young talents. The competition is open to all comic book creators who are at least 17 years old and have never been professionally edited. Participants complete a complete story from one to three boards. This year 2021, 500 designers participated, only 20 have the chance to be winners and Coline Hégron obtained first place.
A consecration for the 22-year-old designer
With her high school diploma in her pocket, Coline joined the European School of Image Studies in Angoulême in 2016. “This school is exactly the same thing as the fine arts with more comics“. In five years of diligent work and several appearances before a jury, the young woman has perfected her drawing practice and honed her style. For her, this participation in the” young talents “competition of the prestigious Angoulème comic book festival represents a way to put an end to her studies. The only downside, because of health rules, she learned that she was one of the 20 selected out of 500 files presented through social networks. It is also through networks social media that was awarded the first prize.
It’s a bit disappointing that I didn’t receive my award in person, but I’m still very happy that my work has been recognized.
Convince the jury in three boards
The author has recently been working on a vast and ambitious project: a comic strip of 100 or 200 pages. Coline admits that if the writing of the screenplay is well advanced, she has not yet fully decided on the visual universe.
It is about the adventures of two young women, it promises a step aside with reality and an absurd humor. She assumes an autobiographical inspiration.
I don’t necessarily realize this during the creation phase but I have to admit, the characters look a lot like one of my sisters and I.
board 1 first prize “young talents” Angoulême
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© Coline Hégron
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Plate 2 Coline Hégron first prize “young talents” Angoulême
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© Coline Hégron
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Plate 3 Coline Hégron 1st prize “young talents” Angoulême
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© Coline Hégron
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Drawing: a passion that dates back to childhood
Coline remembers really starting to draw when she was 6 years old. In fact, it was at this age that his parents enrolled him in the drawing course at the Unelles animation center in Coutances. She says her parents noticed that the little girl was able to draw without interruption for hours, inventing stories and universes.
I freed myself more by drawing than by writing in a diary.
Coline will continue her lessons at Les Unelles until 3rd. It is in high school that she will realize that this passion can also become her future thanks to a meeting.
When this teacher told us about art, things seemed obvious and simple.
Coline chose to enter the Lycée le Verrier in Saint-Lo to have access to the plastic art option. Seven hours a week, the high school student finds her favorite teacher: Bruno Dufour-Coppolani. It is the teacher who will make him realize that drawing is a passion but that it can also be a profession. It is this teacher who will advise his pupil to try the competition for the European Higher School of Image in Angoulême. Contest that she will succeed, the sequel will lead her to the comic strip.
Bruno Dufour-Coppolani, the plastic art teacher is now retired. He talks about his old job and his 20-year career with emotion. He admits without shame that for him teaching was a passion and that he took immense pleasure in helping young artists find their way.
Obviously, the teacher remembers Coline perfectly: “I was extremely attentive to the artistic posture of my students, know-how can be learned but being an artist is a state of mind. You need a strong taste for freedom. and fight at all costs against stereotypes. Coline already had that in her, she had this approach that I find today in her drawings. “
She projects her personality in her drawings.
The designer works both traditionally with paint and digitally with a computer.
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© Coline Hégron
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The future ? Comics of course!
So it’s been 5 years since the original manchoise set down her suitcases in Angoulême. She intends to stay there and projects are not lacking. The author is part of a collective of five cartoonists, a collective with whom they hope to organize exhibitions and publish books.
Following her first, the organization of the Angoulême festival also asked Coline to take charge of the decoration and posters for the ‘young talents’ pavilion for the 2022 edition. Finally, the designer hopes to finalize her comic book project. ” at least 100 pages in June 2021.
For now my dearest dream would be to see one of my comics in bookstores and have it please the public …
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