the grand prize awarded to Quebecer Julie Doucet

by time news

The result is surprising. Of the three finalists in the first round of voting (with Pénélope Bagieu and Catherine Meurisse), Julie Doucet is the least known to the general public. The fourth woman to win the grand prize (created in 1974), the Quebec author has not published anything for twenty years and recently said she was horrified by “big trade fairs” like the Angoulême Festival!

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Born in 1965 in Montreal, Julie Doucet got into comics while studying at the Beaux-Arts. His first boards, violent and crude autofiction imbued with the style of French and American alternative comics, were published in fanzines before being published as an album (by L’Association, in France).

This prize sounds like the consecration of a fundamental movement born in the 1990s with the emergence of authors from this publishing house, who have today become stars of the 9e art (Riad Sattouf, Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim).

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