The award for Best Comic Book of the Past Year went to Listen, pretty Marcia (Here and There), by the Brazilian Marcello Quintanilha. Chaired by illustrator, author and musician Fanny Michaëlis, the jury of the Angoulême International Comics Festival (FIBD) awarded its Fauve d’or on Saturday March 19 to this earthy and serious work, in the vein of the other stories published by Marcello Quintanilha (Tungsten, Glass Talc, etc.).
Its heroine, Marcia, is a nurse in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro who finds herself confronted by a neighborhood gang with whom her daughter Jaqueline, a casual young woman with a loose tongue, recklessly dabbles. Immersed in the daily violence of Brazil, the album is worth in particular by its picturesque scenes of the life of the favelas and by a carnivalesque digital coloring which accentuates the hiatus between comedy and tragedy.
Like the Fauve d’or, the Festival rewarded several independent publishers to whom it awarded the main prizes of its prize list: 2024, Atrabile, les Requins hammers, Cornélius…
On Wednesday March 16, the FIBD awarded the grand prize for its 49e edition to the Canadian Julie Doucet for all of her work.
The full list
Fauve d’or : Listen, pretty Marcia (Here and There), by Marcello Quintanilha.
Fauve Special Jury Prize: of the living (2024), by Raphaël Meltz, Louise Moaty and Simon Roussin.
Beast of audacity: A familiar face (Atrabile), de Michael DeForge.
Faustian revelation: Underground Life (The Hammerhead Sharks), by Camille Lavaud Benito.
Fawn of the series: Spirou, hope despite everything, 3e part (Dupuis), by Emile Bravo.
Fauve heritage: Stick Rubber Baby (Casterman), d’Howard Cruse.
polar fawn: The Notch (Cornelius), by Antoine Maillard.
Ecofauve price: Mégantic, a train in the night (Ecosociety), by Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny and Christian Quesnel.
Fauve public prize: The Great Void (2024), de Léa Murawiec.
Fauve of high school students: Yojimbot, tome I (Dargaud), by Sylvain Repos.
Young Fauve 8-12 years old: Warrior shepherdesses (Glénat), by Jonathan Garnier and Amélie Fléchais.
Young Fauve 13-16 years old: Snapdragon (Kinaye), de Kat Leyh.
Fawn from the alternative comics: Bentofrom Rendo as Paper (France).
Grand Prize: Julie Doucet, for all of her work.
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