Manu Larcenet is, since this Saturday, the first winner of the Gotlib prize for comics at the Paris Book Festival, which rewards impertinence, announced its organizers.
The 53-year-old author received this award for the third volume in his series group therapyentitled The sadness will always last (published by Dargaud). A series of books full of self-mockery that features a comic book author in search of inspiration.
A five-star jury
This Gotlib award for humorous comics was created by Marcel Gotlib’s daughter, Ariane Gotlieb. She chaired the jury made up of musicians Eddy MitchellRichard Gotainer and Thomas Dutronc, actors and directors Alain ChabatAntoine de Caunes and Albert Dupontelwriter Clara Dupont-Monod and comic book authors Zep and Catherine Meurisse.
Manu Larcenet’s comic strip was preferred to seven other albums, including A general, generals by François Boucq and Nicolas Juncker or The Gate of the Universe by Daniel Goossens. Larcenet became a heavyweight in French comics in the 2000s thanks to works like The return to earth, The ordinary fight (awarded at the Angoulême comic book festival in 2004) or Blast.
Previously, in the late 90s, he worked at the magazine Fluide glacial, co-founded by Gotlib. The latter, also co-founder of the magazine The Echo of the Savannas, died in 2016, aged 82. Alone or in collaboration, we owe him emblematic works of French comics, including the humorous series The dingodossiers et Heading-to-brac or the adventures of Superdupont.
Born Marcel Gottlieb in 1934 in Paris, he had become Gotlieb in the civil status (patronym transmitted to his children) and had the pen name Gotlib, without the “e”.
