2023-04-16 14:47:47
Drawn by François Boucq on a story by Nicolas Juncker, A general, generals tells a parody version of the events of May 1958, which brought General de Gaulle to power. Alban Couturier, Glénat/Le Lombard Editions
Absent from the ceremony, the screenwriter paid his share of the reward awarded by the Ministry of the Armed Forces, i.e. 3,000 euros, to a strike fund and to a pot of support for “victims of military violenceof Sainte-Soline.
Nicolas Juncker makes his putsch. Winner, with François Boucq, of the Grand Prize of the 3rd edition of the Galons de la BD, awarded by the Ministry of the Armed Forces for their hilarious A general, generals , the album’s screenwriter stepped out of the line to refuse his award. “For personal, moral, political reasons, which concern only me: it is impossible for me to accept this prize as it is”said Nicolas Juncker on Facebook on Friday, the day after the ceremony organized at the Hôtel de Brienne and in which he did not participate.
“I have passed the age of playmobils a motorcycle”, continues the author who announces to donate all of his 3000 euros from the Grand Prize to a solidarity fund with the strikers engaged against the pension reform and to a support fund for “victims of military violence” of Sainte Soline. “That, through my meager means, the Minister of the Armed Forces financially support these causes, wondering, perhaps, how to reestablish the “ties which unite a people to its army” rather than seeking to destroy them, that could only comfort me”Nicolas Juncker said.
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Tactical retreat
The screenwriter nevertheless hailed “the sense of humor of our soldiers and members of the jury”whom he admits to having underestimated, not thinking for a second to see A general, generals win one of the Galons de la BD prizes. Satirical comedy that transforms the Algiers putsch of 1958 into a boulevard play, A general, generals was published in February 2022 by Le Lombard editions. Nicolas Juncker also recalled having obtained another of his titles, Alone in Berlin (Casterman), or withdrawn from the selection of a previous edition of the Galons de la BD. A maneuver that he did not see fit to repeat this year.
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Also awarded for A general, generalsFrançois Boucq did not fail to congratulate, on Thursday, his friend Nicolas Juncker and to thank him for his historical insights into the events of May 1958. “He is someone who allowed me to see more clearly about this period, which I knew from having lived through it as a child, but which was very chaotic”, he admitted. The designer also praised the incongruity of this Grand Prix awarded by the Ministry of the Armed Forces to “an album that mocks the generals so rigorously in its pages”.
President of the Stripes of Comics jury and deputy director of the communication and audiovisual production establishment of La Défense, Gilles Ciment did not wish to comment on Nicolas Juncker’s decision to refuse his Grand Prix. Among the other awards given by the Galons de la BD, the album 40 men and 12 guns (editions Denoël Graphic) by Marcelino Truong won the History Prize; After the Roundup, by Arnaud Delalande, Laurent Bidot and Joseph Weismann walked away with the Prix Jeunesse; finally, a special mention was awarded to The disappearance of Josef Mengele, de Matz and Jörg Mailliet.
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