Forty-six titles are competing this year for the Fauve d’or, the prize for the best album awarded at the 49th edition of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, which will take place from January 27 to 30, 2022. By now announcement of the prize list, the JDD invites you to discover, every day, the first box of one of them – or another more significant -, decrypted by its author, editor or translator.
“Feel his movements from the inside”
1/46 – Case taken from the “Breadcrumb trail, story of a treason”. By Nadja. Actes Sud BD
The first box of “Ariadne’s Thread, story of a betrayal”.
(Nadja, Actes Sud BD)–
The first box of “Ariadne’s Thread, story of a betrayal”.
(Nadja, Actes Sud BD)–
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“A very tight framing makes us immediately enter the body, feel its movements from the inside. It is a woman who moves forward, determined, passing from light to shadow, then to light. The corridor she crosses foreshadows the journey she will take in the labyrinth of her unconscious. Her long hair sweeping over her shoulders, her first gesture will be to cut them, as one lets go of the moorings. The material of the gouache, used in an almost expressionist way, underlines the carnal side of the story, where it will be a question of being like the heroine, drawn into her quest, in search of her ancient double, to understand her own mistakes. ” By Nadja
Ariadne’s thread, story of a betrayal, Nadja. Actes Sud BD, 180 pages, 26 euros.
“The promise of deliverance”
2/46 – Case taken from “Fox-Boy T. 2, The tampered night”. By Laurent Lefeuvre. Komics Initiative
The first box of “‘Fox-Boy T. 2, The tampered night”.
(Laurent Lefeuvre, Komics Initiative)–
The first box of “‘Fox-Boy T. 2, The tampered night”.
(Laurent Lefeuvre, Komics Initiative)–
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“The first box of Fox-Boy Volume 2 is also a full splash page, as they say in the comics. It acts as a reminder of the previous episode, which had left readers and heroes in suspense. I like the idea of this central woman who walks past the hero to look at us, highlighted by the text ‘A few moments earlier’ whose triangle shape is an arrow that designates it. It all sounds like the promise of deliverance from the end of the previous volume: ‘To be continued!’ ” By Laurent Lefeuvre
Fox-Boy T. 2, The Tricky Night, Laurent Lefeuvre. Komics Initiative, 160 pages, 22 euros.
