It is unprecedented for twenty years: the same publisher, independent moreover, wins the Fauve d’Or for the best album of the Angoulême Festival. One year after the very moving Listen, pretty Marciaby Marcello Quintanilha, the publisher Çà et là, who this year held the record for nominations in the official selection, doubled the bet this year by winning the prestigious trophy for The color of things by the Swiss Martin Panchaud and the audience award for Naphtaline from Argentina Sole Otero. Two albums which were also among the favorites of La Croix for this 50th edition.
The first is an extraordinary graphic novel, with undeniable formal audacity, since the characters, embodied by small circles, evolve in sets seen from above, reminiscent of the staging of video games. The dialogues, written in the margins of the illustrations, like captions, are very well felt. And essential, as their role is increased tenfold compared to a classic comic strip, to give life to these color circles.
Denied by all publishers
The story ? The disappearance of his father and the violent aggression of his mother leave a 14-year-old boy alone, when he has just pocketed a fortune by playing races. We are surprised to be swept away by this darkly humorous melodrama, with its gallery of losers pathetic, to the point of forgetting that they are only circles wandering on the pages…
Rejected by all French-speaking publishers, Martin Panchaud’s album was the subject of a first edition in Germany, before editions here and there deviated from the rule of publishing only non-French-speaking authors and agreed to do so. publish. Well done to this independent publisher since The color of things won several awards (from ACBD critics, in particular) and excellent word-of-mouth stimulated by booksellers (16,000 copies sold since last September).
Greatly absent: the big publishers
The Audience Award went to Naphtaline, by Sole Otero, a fascinating Argentinian family fresco, in which characters with disproportionate bodies struggle, as if weighed down by the weight of the past. That of the grandmother of a young woman who occupies her grandmother’s apartment after her death and who traces the thread of her tormented existence.
The Fauve of the series returns to a troubled manga on the toxic relationship between a mother and her son, Blood relationship, by Shuzo Oshimi (Ki-oon). The Festival also awarded honorary trophies to the great mangakas who had made the trip, Junji Ito, master of horror, Ryōichi Ikegami, thriller veteran, and Hajime Isayama, creator of the phenomenon The attack of the Titans (110 million albums sold), to full houses during their respective masterclasses.
The big absentees from this list are the big publishing houses, and in particular Casterman, also publisher of Bastien Vivès, whose last album by Jean-Marc Rochette, the last queenwas among the favorites.
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The winners of the 50th edition of the Angoulême Festival
FAUVE D’OR – PRIZE FOR BEST ALBUM
The color of thingsMartin Panchaud, Here and There
SPECIAL JURY FAUVE
AnimanAnouk Ricard, Exemplary Editions
FAWN SERIES
Blood Ties T.11Shuzo Oshimi – Traduction de Sébastien Ludmann, Ki-oon
FAUVE REVELATION
A Tree Frog in autumn (and more…), Linnea Sterte – Translation by Astrid Boitel, Les Éditions de la Cerise
FAUVE OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
KhatXimo Abadía – Translation by Anne Calmels and David Schalvelzon, Éditions La Joie de lire
FAUVE – FRANCE TELEVISION AUDIENCE AWARD
NaphtalineSole Otero – Translation by Éloïse de la Maison, Here and There
FAUVE HERITAGE
stone flowersHisashi Sakaguchi – Translation by Ilan Nguyen, Revival
ECO-FAUVA RAJA
Under the sunAna Penyas – Translation by Benoît Mitaine, Actes Sud L’An 2
FAUVE YOUTH
The Long Walk of the TurkeysLéonie Bischoff – Kathleen Karr, Rue de Sèvres
FAUVE SPECIAL OF THE YOUTH GRAND JURY
All princesses die after midnightQuentin Zuttion, The Lombard
FAUVE POLAR SNCF
Hound DogNicolas Pegon, Denoel Graphic
RENÉ GOSCINNY AWARD – BEST SCREENPLAY
Nightmares ex MachinaThierry Smolderen, Drawing by Jorge González, Dargaud
RENÉ GOSCINNY PRIZE – YOUNG SCREENPLAY PRIZE
SkinMieke Versyp, Here and There
FAVES OF HONOR
Junji Itō
Ryoichi Ikegami
SPECIAL FAUVE OF THE 50e EDITING
Hajime Isayama
ECUMENICAL JURY AWARD
Sakura Springby Marie Jaffredo (West Winds)
CHRISTIAN COMIC JURY AWARD
Matteo Ricci – In the Forbidden Cityby Jean Dufaux and Martin Jamar, Dargaud
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