After presenting its official selection of prizes in December, the festival, shaken up by the health crisis, will unveil its prize list on January 29, at the end of a very special ceremony at the Angoulême theater, exceptionally reserved for an audience. very limited, but broadcast live.
The Fauves (prize), Fauve d’or (best album), special jury prize, series, revelation, audacity, audience prize, heritage prize, SNCF thriller, youth prize, young adults and alternative comics will be awarded. “Angoulême is a unique opportunity for many media to showcase comics in all their diversity. Many remarkable albums came out in 2020, some went unnoticed due to circumstances, and so the jury, which I have the pleasure and honor to chair this year, will shine a light on some of these books ” , supports Benoît Peeters, eminent comic strip specialist, who is chairing the Grand Jury this year.
The latest government announcements have forced the FIBD to abandon its comic strip TGV project. The latter was to symbolically bring representatives of the 9th art to attend the ceremony. In a small group, the ceremony will take place in the form of a talk show, the Angoulême Festival said in a press release.
“The choice of Thomas VDB was imposed very naturally (…) to give even more life to this exceptional moment”, defends Fred Felder.
“The choice of Thomas VDB was imposed very naturally. We have been following and loving his work as an actor and journalist for some time now – not to be missed on France Inter!”, Explains Fred Felder, a the two artistic co-directors of the Festival. “The spark? Surely this stroll in Paris, where when, while evoking his name, we came across a Maurice column (not the designer) with Thomas VDB biting an apple in his bath! And if instead of ‘a forbidden fruit, there was a fruit to defend … The comic strip We immediately thought that this would be the perfect combination to give even more life to this exceptional moment that is the Prize-Giving Ceremony », Adds the co-director.
The Fauve of high school students for the first time
Thomas VBD, alias Thomas Vandenberghe, is in the band of “By Jupiter” alongside Alex Vizorek and Charline Vanhoenacker on France Inter. On television you saw him alongside Mathieu Madenian in “Le message de Madenian et VDB” on France2 then on W9, awarded by Les Étoiles le Parisien in 2017, recalls the Festival. Or in 2019 in “Quotidien” on TMC. Currently he is finishing the writing of his first book on how music has accompanied and often guided his life and career.
During this ceremony, the Fauve des Lycéens, created in partnership with the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports and the Cultura brand, will be awarded for the first time. 1000 high school students will designate their favorite comic strip from a list of 5 books from the Official Selection.
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