FIBD 2021 official selections unveiled

Remember that the FIBD offers several selections. The official selection, of 45 albums, will see a grand jury award Le Fauve d’Or, Best Album Prize; Le Fauve d’Angoulême, Special Jury Prize; Le Fauve d’Angoulême, Revelation Prize; Le Fauve d’Angoulême, Series Prize; Le Fauve d’Angoulême, Audacity Prize; Le Fauve d’Angoulême, Prix du Public France Télévisions and finally Le Fauve d’Angoulême, Prix des lycéens Cultura.

Then, each selection will elect a winner, who will receive their own Fauve in each category.

The official selection

The hunting accident, David L. Carlson and Landis Blair, translated by Julie Sibony, Sonatine
Aldobrando, Gipi & Luigi Critone, translated by Hélène Dauniol-Remaud, Casterman
Anaïs Nin – On the Sea of ​​Lies, Léonie Bischoff, Casterman
Tiger balm, Lucie Quéméner, Delcourt
Beaten, Marine Levéel & Lilian Coquillaud, 6 feet underground
Billy Hazelnuts, Tony Millionaire, translated by Baptiste Neveux, Huber
Black-out, Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol, Futuropolis
Cascade, Fabio Viscogliosi, The Association
Bolchoi Arena Tome 2 La Somnambule, Boulet and Aseyn, Delcourt
Chinese Queer, Seven, translated by Lucie Modde, Sarbacane
Citéville / Citéruine, Jérôme Dubois, Cornélius / Matière editions
all coda, Simon Spurrier and Matias Bergara, Glénat Comics
Connections Volume 1 False Chords, Pierre Jeanneau, Tanibis
Tomorrow is another shitty day, Olivier Texier, The Hammerhead Sharks
Dragman, Steven Appleby, translated by Lili Sztajn, Denoël Graphic
The last atlas volume 2, Vehlmann, de Bonneval, Tanquerelle and Blanchard, Dupuis
Eldorado, Tobias Tycho Schalken, Fremok
La Fange, History of Falter City scammers, Pat Grant, Right Here
Clove & Leg Tome 4 Les Contes du Marylène, Anne Simon, Herself
Flipette and Veneration, Lucrèce Andreae, Delcourt
Unbelievable !, Zabus and Hippolyte, Dargaud
Invisible Kingdom Volume 1 The Path, G. Willow Wilson et Christian Ward, HiComics
The Gardens of Babylon, Nicolas Presl, Atrabile
Irena – Volume 5 La Vie après, Jean-David Morvan, Séverine Tréfouël and David Evrard, Glénat
Kent State, Four dead in Ohio, Derf Backderf, translated by Philippe Touboul, Çà et là
Weed Volume 2, Keigo Shinzo, translated by Aurélien Estager, Le Lézard Noir
The Mystery of Maison Brume, Lisa Mouchet, Magnani
The Mechanics of the Sage, Gabrielle Piquet, Atrabile
Les Ogres-Dieux Tome 4 First-born, Hubert and Bertrand Gatignol, Soleil
Paracuellos Take 2, Carlos Giménez, translated by Richard Lobet, Fluide glacial
Man skin, Hubert and Zanzim, Glénat
Paul at Home, Michel Rabagliati, The Watermelon
Meanwhile, Pelle Forshed, translated by Aude Pasquier, L’Agrume
Pico Bogue Volume 12 Inseparable, Dominique Roques and Alexis Dormal, Dargaud
Maid volume 1 Beginner, Florence Dupré la Tour, Dargaud
The bloody dolls, Benoît Preteseille, Atrabile
Rusty Brown, Chris Ware, translated by Anne Capuron, Delcourt
Sapiens – Volume 1 The Birth of Humanity, Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen et Daniel Casanave, Albin Michel
Space Brothers tome 31, Chûya Koyama, translated by Sylvain Chollet, Pika
Sengo Tome 3 Families, Sansuke Yamada, translated by Sébastien Ludmann, Casterman
DANCE !, Maurane Mazars, Le Lombard
The bull by the horns, Morvandiau, The Association
Travels in Egypt and Nubia by Giambattista Belzoni Volume 3, Grégory Jarry, Lucie Castel and Nicole Augereau, Flblb
An exemplary year, Lisa Mandel, Autoédition

Fauve Selection of High School Students, in partnership with Cultura

The hunting accident, David L. Carlson and Landis Blair, translated by Julie Sibony, Sonatine
Aldobrando, Gipi & Luigi Critone, translated by Hélène Dauniol-Remaud, Casterman
Tiger balm, Lucie Quéméner, Delcourt
Billy Hazelnuts, Tony Millionaire, translated by Baptiste Neveux, Huber
Black-out, Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol, Futuropolis
all coda, Simon Spurrier and Matias Bergara, Glénat Comics
La Fange, History of Falter City scammers, Pat Grant, Right Here
Flipette and Veneration, Lucrèce Andreae, Delcourt
Unbelievable !, Zabus and Hippolyte, Dargaud
The Gardens of Babylon, Nicolas Presl, Atrabile
Kent State, Four dead in Ohio, Derf Backderf, translated by Philippe Touboul, Çà et là
The Mechanics of the Sage, Gabrielle Piquet, Atrabile
Man skin, Hubert and Zanzim, Glénat
Meanwhile, Pelle Forshed, translated by Aude Pasquier, L’Agrume
DANCE !, Maurane Mazars, Le Lombard

Among a selection of 15 albums from the Official Selection, 1000 high school students will retain a “short list” of 5 titles. Then, a jury of 10 high school students selected at random will meet to elect the winner from among the 5 designated albums.

Polar SNCF Fauve Selection

Across the border, Jean-Luc Fromental and Philippe Berthet, Dargaud
Pellet, Carlos Trillo and Eduardo Risso, translated by Thomas Dassance, iLatina
The Last Rose of summer, Lucas Harari, Sarbacane
GoSt111, Mark Eacersall, Henri Scala and Marion Mousse, Glénat
The Mysteries of Hobtown volume 1 The Case of the Missing Men, Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes, translated by Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau, Pow Pow
Parker – Integral, Darwyn Cooke and Richard Stark, translated by Tonino Benacquista, Doug Headline, Matz, Nicolas Richard, Dargaud
But where is Kiki? An adventure of Tif and Tondu, Blutch & Robber, Dupuis

Heritage Selection

Anthology Édika Volume 1: 1979-1984, Édika, Icy Fluid
Go on!, William Gropper, La Table Ronde
The scout, Lynd Ward, translated by Jean-Charles Khalifa, Monsieur Toussaint Louverture
Marsh, Yoshiharu Tsuge, translated by Jean-Louis Gauthey, Cornelius
Mauretania, A crossing, Chris Reynolds, translated by Jérôme LeGlatin, Tanibis
Invisible people, Shohei Kusunoki, translated by Satoko Fujimoto and Éric Cordier, Cornelius
Violence & Peace, Shinobu Kaze, translated by Léopold Dahan, The Black Lizard

Youth Selection 8-12 years old

Ariol – Ramono, your uncle does organic!, Emmanuel Guibert and Marc Boutavant, BD Kids
Cecil and the broken objects, Élodie Shanta, Biscoto
The Friends Club volume 1, Sophie Guerrive, Editions 2024
Les Croques volume 3 Final bouquet, Léa Mazé, Editions de la Gouttière
Detective Kahn, Min-Seok Ha, translated by Yoon-sun Park and Lucas Méthé, Misma
Guardians of the attic, Oriane Lassus, Biscoto
Miss Charity tome 1 The childhood of art, Loïc Clément and Anne Montel, after Marie-Aude Murail, Rue de Sèvres
King of birds, Alexander Utkin, Gallimard BD

Youth Selection 12-16 years

Asadora! Tome 3, Naoki Urasawa, translated by Thibaud Desbief, Kana
The Panther’s Speech, Jérémie Moreau, Editions 2024
Middlewest tome 1 Anger, Skottie Young and Jorge Corona, translated by Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Urban Comics
Olive volume 1 A blue moon in the head, Véro Cazot and Lucy Mazel, Dupuis
Leave the bay, Bérénice Motais from Narbonne, Actes Sud BD
The Hyenas Meal, Aurélien Ducoudray and Mélanie Allag, Delcourt
The Oath of Lanterns, Ryan Andrews, translated by Lauren Triou, Delcourt
Spy x Family tome 1, Tatsuya Endo, translated by Satoko Fujimoto and Nathalie Bougon-Bastide, Kurokawa

Update 12:35:

We have added, where possible, the names of translators, omitted by the FIBD.

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Photography: illustration, ActuaLitté, CC BY SA 2.0

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