By Julien Bonnet
Published on 30 Jan 21 at 14:32
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The winners of Angoulême Comic Festival were unveiled. For this 2021 edition, it’s the album The hunting accident who received the Fauve d’Or, the highest distinction of the jury which recognizes him as best album of the year.
Health constraint requires, the ceremony hosted by Thomas VDB took place in video and live on France Inter. Several authors reacted live or through pre-recorded messages.
It was mostly the first part of the festival. The second half, public this time, will take place from June 24 to 27. In total, fourteen albums are part of the official prize list.
- Fauve d’Or : The hunting accident, Landis Blair and David L. Carlson
“Chicago, 1959. When young Charlie moves in with Matt, his blind father, he is convinced he has lost his eyesight due to a hunting accident. But the day a cop rings the bell, Matt chooses to reveal the truth… Inspired by real events, The Hunting Accident is a beautiful tribute to the power of the noir novel and the greatness of literature. “
- Goscinny price: Black-out, Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol
“A fantastic black and white like a negative haunted by the memory of racism in the origins of Hollywood. Through Maximus Wyld, a fictional actor capable of single-handedly embodying all the faces of non-white America on screen, writer and director Loo Hui Phang has chosen a strong symbol to tell behind the myth of the dream factory the story of the invisibilization of minorities. “
- Prix Konishi: Miyako Slocombe, for the translation of Tokyo Tarareba Girls de Akiko Higashimura
“For its fourth edition, the Konishi Prize was announced through a video capsule presented by Fausto Fasulo, editor-in-chief of the journal Atom. The Konishi Prize for the translation of Japanese manga into French rewards each year the translation into French of a Japanese manga published during the past year. “
- Price of the alternative comic book: KUTIKUTI, The Thick book of KUTI
“KUTIKUTI was made by 174 artists and writers. The Thick Book of Kuti is the sole achievement of the KUTI magazine team, which has been supporting wild, indomitable and experimental artists for 15 years. “
- Youth price 8-12 years old: The Friends Club, Sophie Guerrive
“Before being a philosopher plantigrade, the Tulip bear was once a cub. Sophie Guerrive imagines here short tender adventures for her endearing hero and her friends, Crocus the serpent and Violette the bird, for children. This makes you want to hibernate by the fireside and discover where the strange sound of the thaw comes from… ”
- Youth price 12-16 years: Middlewest – Tome 1 : Anger, Skottie Young and Jorge Corona
“Abel lives with a tyrannical father who, one angry evening, turns into a demon and fails to kill him. Confronted with a force too powerful for him, Abel flees and is taken in by showmen. But his father is on his heels… A Wizard of Oz atmosphere with Stephen King sauce for this quest for identity with a breathtaking design. A panting comic book. “
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- Polar SNCF price: GoSt111, Mark Eacersall, Henri Scala and Marion Mousse
“Goran Stankovic is an endearing family man, taken on by the cops for accepting an illegal job. In spite of himself, he joined the ranks of the “informers”. Served by an expressive drawing, this realistic fiction was scripted by Mark Eacersall, from the audiovisual industry, and Henri Scala, an authentic curator. An immersion in murky water in the daily life of police informants. “
- Heritage Prize: The Scout, Lynd Ward
“A pioneer of the graphic novel, admirer of the woodcuts of Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward expresses his social convictions in silent, pictorial stories which slay the brutality of the American economic system. This three-volume boxed set brings together his six “wordless novels”, enriched with essays by the author and an afterword by Art Spiegelman. “
- France Televisions Audience Award: Anaïs Nin, on the sea of lies, Léonie Bischoff
“Anaïs Nin is one of the most fascinating personalities of the 20th century. By plunging into her works, her diary and her correspondence with Henri Miller, Léonie Bischoff draws freely on the sensuality of this intimate and literary material. The vibrations of her pencil with its multicolored lead bring the artist to life and through her celebrate emancipation through creation. “
- Fauve high school students: Man skin, Hubert and Zanzim
“In Renaissance Italy, a young girl puts on a ‘man’s skin’ which allows her to enter male society and get to know her future husband better. A fable which questions various themes with contemporary resonance, such as gender, the domination of men over women and the weight of morality on female sexuality. “
- Revelation Prize: Dance !, Maurane Mazars
“Through the journey of Uli, a German dancer who settles in New York to satisfy his passion for the musical, Tanz! evokes 1950s America in the throes of cultural and social upheaval. An ode to the fluidity of the body and the beauty of the dance, magnified by a line in love with freedom and by dazzling colors. “
- Audacity Prize: The Mechanics of the Sage, Gabrielle Piquet
“It is not enough to have money to be happy. Charles Hamilton, the wealthy heir, is tired of idleness. The truth is elsewhere: to fill this existential void which despairs him, he would need a sage … With a light and luminous stroke, Gabrielle Piquet draws up an indictment against our obsession for well-being and our quest for happiness. “
- Series price: Paul at home, Michel Rabagliati
“Paul is in low spirits. His wife has left him, his mother is seriously ill, he hardly sees his daughter any more, his fifties have caught up with him … written and drawn by a Quebec author, a daily saga in which melancholy is tinged with humor for tell the story of the life that goes, and whose sixth volume won the Audience Award in Angoulême in 2010. »
- Special Jury Prize: Dragman, Steven Appleby
“Dragman is not an ordinary superhero. To be able to fly, he must disguise himself as a woman. But he doesn’t want to tarnish his reputation as a married man and a good father, even if he loves to cross-dress … Cruel dilemma for the hero of this fantasy with a typically British spirit, which humorously renews the genre super heroic. “
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