From
Persepolis
to
Peau d'homme
, via
Moi, what I like are the monsters,
the
Figaro
selection
year after year since 2000.
2000:
Persepolis,
Marjane Satrapi, The Association
Persepolis, has been translated into over fifteen languages.
Association
Published between 2000 and 2003, the autobiographical black and white tetralogy signed Marjane Satrapi belongs to the line of albums which have changed the landscape of comics.
The author talks about his childhood in Tehran in 1979, in his family of opponents of the Islamic Republic, his difficult stay in Europe, his return to his family before leaving his native country for France for good.
The work translated into more than fifteen languages and whose cinematographic adaptation won the jury prize at the Cannes film festival in 2007, made the heyday of the publishing house L'Association, spearhead of the alternative cartoon.
Read also:
Tintin, Asterix, The Arab of the future, Persepolis
... The essential comics of the century
2001, Le Bouncer,
Alejandro Jodorowsky and François Boucq
Jodorowsky and Boucq have restored the West to its letters of nobility.
Associated Humanoids
Imagined by two big names of the ninth art, the series
The Bouncer
(nickname which designates in the West those who were responsible for emptying unwanted people in saloons) has established itself as one of the great westerns in comics of recent years. .
Thanks to their one-armed hero of Indian origin, righter of wrongs, Jodorowsky and Boucq have given back to the West its letters of nobility, by dusting it of its clichés.
To read also: BD: The Shakespearean western by Jodorowsky and Boucq
2002,
Le Chat du rabbi
,
La Bar-Mitsva,
Joann Sfar
Set in the 1930s,
Le Chat du Rabbin
brings back to life an Algiers from the beginning of the 20th century.
Pilot fish
In this tasty saga, a rabbi and his smala invade the pages of their exuberance, their colorful talk of North Africa, their smiling quarrels, and irresistibly make one think of Nailcruncher and the Valorous, the characters in Albert Cohen's novels. .
Set in the 1930s, the story brings back to life an Algiers from the beginning of the 20th century, where Jewish and Arab communities coexist in peace.
Read also: The cult comics of the summer:
Le Chat du Rabbi
by Joann Sfar
2003:
The photographer,
Emmanuel Guibert
The Photographer
tells about those who try to fix what others are bruising.
Dupuis, Aire Libre collection
In July 1986, Didier Lefèvre accompanied Médecins sans Frontières in Afghanistan, in the midst of the war between the Soviets and the Moudjahidin.
This mission will arch his life as this conflict will mark contemporary history.
At the crossroads of individual destinies and geopolitics, at the intersection of drawing and photography,
The Photographer
tells about those who try to repair what others are hurting.
"The experiment of the
Photographer
(2003-2006) is a first attempt which immediately emerges as a masterpiece, by a symbiosis of extreme accuracy between the two systems of expression", we can read in the sum book
The art of comics
published by Citadelles and Mazenod.
Read also: Angoulême Festival: Emmanuel Guibert, a Grand Prix in his bubble
2004:
Blankets
,
Snowcoat
, Craig Thompson
Through his story, Craig Thompson paints the unvarnished portrait of deep and bigoted America.
Casterman
Craig Thompson grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family deep in Wisconsin.
He received a strict education kneaded by the omnipresence of religion.
A sensitive child mistreated by his classmates, he takes refuge in drawing.
When he is a teenager he meets his first love, life becomes more complicated for one who has been brought up in fear of the sin of the flesh.
Blankets, a
superb and delicate autobiography of 600 pages, looks back on the troubles that accompanied his awakening to sexuality, in deep America bending under the weight of religion and family traditions.
2005:
The flight of the raven second part, Jean-Pierre Gibrat
In Le Vol du Corbeau, virtuosity erupts in each box, as well as a great mastery of storytelling.
Dupuis, Aire Libre collection
Nothing predestined Jeanne, a communist activist who had joined the Resistance, to meet François, a cheeky and willingly cynical climber.
And even less to have to flee in his company to escape the pursuit of the French police and the Gestapo.
In this France of June 1944 where raids and denunciations are still going on, their destinies will be linked on the stage of the theater of the Occupation.
We no longer present the superb and elegant female portraits of Jean-Pierre Gibrat, 2004 Grand Prix of the Angoulême festival and author of the great romantic saga
Mattéo
.
His work is simply sumptuous.
Read also:
Mattéo
, twenty years later
2006: Small streams, Pascal Rabaté
Small streams light up old age in a different light.
Futuropolis
Before our happy troublemakers of the Third Age of the
Old Furnaces
, there were Pierre and Edmond des
Petits Brooks
.
The two friends flow a quiet retreat settling each day at the edge of the river to fish, hit the tip of fat and drink a little shot of white.
A ritual shaken up by the death of Edmond.
Pierre finds himself alone, it is time for him to change his life.
He will then embark at the wheel of his cart on a journey in search of new horizons.
To find that his heart and his cock can still beat in unison.
Funny, full of humanity, moving, poetic ... How many luminous adjectives can qualify this album which sheds light on old age with a new day.
To our greatest delight, Pascal Rabaté extended the adventure and brought his comic strip to the screen, with a charming and tasty Daniel Prévost.
To read also: Prévost: "This is the story of a man who is reborn to life"
2007,
Once upon a time in France
,
The Empire of Monsieur Joseph
, Fabien Nury and Sylvain Vallée
Joseph Joanovici: collaborator and bastard for some, great resistance and scapegoat for others.
Glénat
The six-volume series traces the life of Joseph Joanovici from its true story.
It recounts the rise of this young orphan, a Jewish immigrant scrapper, who became a billionaire during the Second World War, a collaborator and bastard for some, a great resistance fighter and a scapegoat for others.
The saga portrays without complacency and with sometimes cruel precision this key period in Joanovici's fate, when he is forced to make moral or immoral choices.
The complexity of the character is superbly relayed by the realistic drawing of Sylvain Vallée, who knew how to keep the two aspects of his disturbing personality without capsizing him to one side or the other.
To read also: Mr Joseph: the troubled fate of a collaborative and resistant Jew
2008:
Spirou diary of an ingenuous
, Émile Bravo
Émile Bravo's Spirou is a masterful flawless.
Dupuis
On the occasion of Spirou's 70th birthday, Emile Bravo tackled the origins of the famous groom of the Moustic Hotel, created on April 21, 1938 by Rob-Vel, at Éditions Dupuis.
In
The Journal of an Ingenuous
, the author reviews the myth with a confusing going.
In a closed door with many twists and turns, he orchestrates his plot around the Moustic Hotel, in 1939, when the German-Soviet pact was signed.
With finesse and mischief, the designer stages a teenage Spirou who, while encumbering himself with a small tame squirrel, finds himself struggling with a blundering reporter named Fantasio.
Unity of time, unity of action, unity of places, Bravo achieves a masterful flawless performance ... without ever boring the reader.
To read also: La Case BD:
Hope despite everything
or Spirou facing the throes of war in 1940
2009:
Blast, Grasse Carcasse
, Manu Larcenet
Blast
is a tale of rare harshness and intensity.
Dargaud
With
Blast
, the author of
Ordinary Combat
radically changes register.
Gravity and violence have dethroned humor.
This gloomy masterpiece features Polza Mancini, a 38-year-old colossus who weighs 150 kilos, in police custody.
He is suspected of having fatally assaulted a young girl.
The two cops who question him immediately understand the difficulty of collecting the confessions of this man who has decided to wander alone and sinking into decay after the death of his father.
Because Polza will only speak on condition of being listened to and being able to tell his story.
He wants to be understood.
He then embarks the two police officers in the meanders of his degradation.
A story of rare harshness and intensity in the lineage of the prodigious works of the ninth art.
Read also:
Blast
, the dark masterpiece of Manu Larcenet
2010,
Quai d'Orsay
,
Diplomatic Chronicles
, Christophe Blain and Abel Lanzac
Quai d'Orsay
was the subject of a big screen adaptation by Bertrand Tavernier.
Dargaud
With Alexandre Taillard de Vorms, Christophe Blain gave birth to an impetuous political figure.
This passionate, cyclothymic, egotistical, hyperactive and demanding minister, recalls Dominique de Villepin, in 2002, when he was himself Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Raffarin government.
The screenwriter, who has kept his identity secret for three years behind the pseudo Abel Lanzac, is none other than Antonin Baudry, former advisor to ... Dominique de Villepin.
This delightful comic, which has been the subject of a big screen adaptation by Bertrand Tavernier, plunges readers behind the scenes of a ministry and reveals its sometimes not very shining cooking secrets.
At a time when it was quite rare for comics to venture into the game-rich lands of politics.
Read also: Christophe Blain, a new life after
Quai d'Orsay
2011:
Polina
, Bastien Vivès
Polina
is a masterpiece of lightness.
Casterman
In
Polina
, the author of
Taste of Chlorine
and
Lastman
tells about the beginnings of a ballet dancer, Polina Oulinov.
Entering the academy at an early age, she met Professor Bojinski, as feared as he was admired by his students.
He spots Polina and offers her to perform a solo that he himself composed.
The young girl dances for up to 14 hours a day to satisfy her dance master.
However, under the influence of her lover and her friends, she gives up and goes with them to Germany to join a troupe led by a fashionable director.
Polina
is a masterpiece of lightness, full of grace and so dense in its content.
An innovative comic strip which will have marked the year 2011 and the artistic career of its author.
In 2016, the director Valérie Müller and the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj adapted the album to the cinema.
Read also: Polina, a chrysalis turned butterfly
2012:
Pablo, Max Jacob
, Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie
A large album of which the superb original boards were exhibited at the Montmartre Museum.
Dargaud
Before the intimidating Picasso, you should know that there was the young Pablo.
A penniless little painter, fresh from his native Spain, settled in Montmartre.
Madly in love with the beautiful Fernande Olivier, he ends up putting her in his bed.
But the Montmartre model does not want to spend his life among the terrifying paintings of Picasso.
She leaves him on the first night ... Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie recount, in four volumes, with humor and enthusiasm the beginnings of Picasso, his first great love, the meeting with Guillaume Apollinaire, against the backdrop of the birth of art modern.
It's alive, lively like a waltz, colorful and sparkling like a glass of champagne.
A large series of which the superb original plates were exhibited at the Montmartre Museum.
To read also: Picasso is (re) box on the mound
2013:
Tyler Cross
, Fabien Nury and Brüno
Tyler Cross is
an outright fifties gangster story.
Dargaud
After the excellent Atar Gull, their first collaboration, the duo Fabien Nury and Brüno signed a pure and hard history of gangster, anchored in America of the fifties.
Tyler Cross
is a jubilant noir thriller stuffed with cinematic references from Richard Brooks to Robert Aldrich, and literary references from Dashiell Hammet to James Ellroy.
Classy and fearless gangster, Tyler Cross finds himself, after a robbery gone wrong, prisoner in a town run by a family of degenerate crickets.
But the imperturbable hero is not the type to let himself be bullied.
His response will be terrible.
In a clever mix between clear line and expressionism, Brüno's stylized line perfectly relays Fabien Nury's cinematographic approach.
Read also:
Tyler Cross
wins the 2014 BD Fnac award
2014:
The Arab of the future: a youth in the Middle East, 1978-1984
, Riad Sattouf
With a keen sense of observation, Riad Sattouf stages his childhood memories.
Allary editions
This excellent autobiographical saga by Riad Sattouf tells the story of a child of the 1980s, of a Syrian father and a Breton mother, who grew up between the Libya of Gaddafi and the Syria of Assad.
Far from clichés and moral prejudices, but with a keen sense of observation, Riad Sattouf stages his childhood memories.
Ingeniously juggling with joyous and bitter moments in turn, Riad Sattouf has just released the penultimate part of the saga planned in six volumes marked by the crime of his father and the complicated adolescence of the hero - his double -, old this time of 14 years.
2015:
Catharsis
, Luz
In
Catharsis
, Luz depicts the torments that followed that fateful date of January 7.
Futuropolis
Catharsis is the post-traumatic album of Luz, cartoonist of
Charlie Hebdo who
survived the tragedy of January 7, 2015, thanks to a mere hour late.
Faced with the throes of emptiness, with anguish bordering on paranoia, Luz forced his hand and took up the pencil again to root out the unease that was invading him.
Thus, he shows how a dialogue is established with his ball in his stomach, "there to prevent him from forgetting", giving him the nickname of Ginette.
Or how he communicates with his double at the grave of his friend Charb.
Nightmares, attacks of severe insomnia, or paranoia, doubts about his ability to continue drawing ... In a variety of styles that interweave humor and darker moments, depicts the torments that followed this fateful date of January 7.
A journey strewn with pitfalls which nevertheless led him back to drawing and hope.
Read also:
Catharsis
: Luz's comic book on the after
Charlie Hebdo
award-winning
2016:
Lightness
, Catherine Meurisse
Lightness
, a poignant album, all in pastel colors, and not devoid of humor.
Dargaud
Lightness
is the other sublime story of reconstruction after the
Charlie Hebdo
massacre
.
Like Luz, Catherine Meurisse, who spent more than ten years writing the satirical weekly, narrowly escaped the January 7, 2015 massacre. She too was late for the editorial conference.
His life is turned upside down.
She loses her friends, her mentors.
One year later, how do you get over it?
So as not to go mad?
To find the lightness and the taste of drawing?
His poignant album, all in pastel colors, and not devoid of humor, tells of this long road of reconstruction which passes through the beauty and love of art.
Read also:
La Légèreté
, the comic strip on the Charlie attack soon to be adapted to the cinema
2017:
Bug
, volume 1, Enki Bilal
Always inhabited by his visionary side, Enki Bilal knew how to capture the ailments and anxieties of the time.
Casterman
In 2014, Bilal let go of the ninth art to focus on his work as a painter.
Three years later, he returned to comics with
Bug.
An album whose enigmatic title designates a sort of general digital crash on Earth.
All of the world's computer memory is suddenly blown away, creating monster chaos.
Simultaneously, a cosmonaut returning from a space mission to Mars has reached Earth orbit and is desperate to return to Earth to join his family.
A bug has crept into him, and Cameron Hobb gradually discovers that he has access to all the data in the world ... Always inhabited by his visionary side, Enki Bilal has been able to capture the ailments and anxieties of the time, and restores with a mixture of humor, terror and astonishment ...
Read also:
Bug
: when the planet loses its memory, Enki Bilal finds inspiration
2018:
Me, what I like are the monsters
, Emil Ferris
Fascinating graphic novel,
Me, What I Love is Monsters
was initially refused by 48 publishers.
Mr. Toussaint Louverture
Emil Ferris' first atypical graphic novel features a young girl who finds herself confronted with the death of her attractive Jewish neighbor Anka Silverberg, who killed herself by a bullet to the heart on Valentine's Day.
The little heroine, who has taken refuge in her imagination, full of monsters, vampires, ghosts and other werewolves ... does not believe it and decides to investigate like a werewolf private detective.
An unidentified literary object of 146 pages, crowned golden fawn in 2019 at the Angoulême festival.
“Emil Ferris is one of the greatest comic book artists of our time,”
Art Spiegelman said of the author.
To read also: La case BD: Emil Ferris or the monster beauty
2019:
Revolution I. Liberty,
Florent Grouazel and Younn Locard
Revolution
is an album created by two promising young authors.
South Acts - Year 2
Florent Grouazel and Younn Locard sign a historical, dense and documented fresco, retracing the beginnings of the revolution, in April 1789. The two young people decided to stand at human height, and even at the height of children, because the he album begins when two ragged kids run away in panic as bullets rain.
This revolt, the Réveillon affair (and the massacre of the inhabitants of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine), is one of the first upheavals that will ignite the powder.
Also devoted to Angoulême in 2020, this sepia-colored comic tells an impressive graphic epic, full of breath and tension, while resuscitating Paris at the end of the 18th century.
Read also: In Angoulême, comics are making their revolution
2020:
Man's
skin, Hubert and Zanzim
A classic in the making,
Peau d'Homme
tackles major societal issues straightforward.
Glénat
In Renaissance Italy, Bianca, a young lady from a good family, is promised to Giovanni, the son of a wealthy merchant.
The young girl would like to know her promise before the wedding day.
Sent to her aunt's house, she will discover the incredible secret of the women of the family.
The latter have a man's skin that allows them to transform into Lorenzo, a young ephebe with copper skin.
Transvestite in Lorenzo, Bianca will then take a liking to this masculine world.
This fable is an ode to tolerance.
Sublimated by the enchanting trait of Zanzim, the last album of the screenwriter Hubert, who died at the age of 49 last February, strikes the reader with its accuracy and sensitivity.
A classic in the making ...
To read also:
Skin of man
or love without straitjacket or barriers
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