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Angoulême Festival: Masterful Fauve d'Or for The Hunting Accident

2021-01-29T18:37:55.536Z


The 48th edition of the comic book festival unveiled its winners, live on France Inter. A slightly demanding vintage, which does not quite reflect the dynamism of a popular genre.


A graphic novel which features a blind man lost in limbo from

Dante's

Hell

, saved from prison by books in an effervescent America: here is a beautiful symbol to mark this 48th edition of the Angoulême comic book festival so strange in heart of the health crisis.

The Hunting Accident,

by Landis Blair and David L. Carlson (Sonatine editions), which has just been elected Fauve d'Or - prize for the best album of the year, has all the qualities of an unforgettable comic book.

Two years after the coronation of Emil Ferris' formidable graphic novel

Me, what I like are monsters

, we can guess the connections: same black and white drawing, loaded with shadows and hatching, à la Thomas Ott or Art Spiegelman in

Maus

.

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The hunting accident,

in the dantesque hell of an American prison

The dreamlike flashes of young Landis Blair follow the path of the protagonist seeking to reach the light through dark family secrets.

Like an allegory of the present times.

The Hunting Accident

takes place in Chicago in 1959. Young Charlie Rizzo, who has just lost his mother, goes to live with his blind father.

For the young boy, the origin of his father's blindness is simple: he lost his sight as a result of a hunting accident.

The young hero will quickly discover that this is a terrible lie.

An architecture of immensity

Masterfully conducted over 466 pages, this graphic novel describes the evolution of the father-son relationship, in all its complexity and immerses the reader in the psychology of the characters and in an architecture of immensity, à la William Blake or at MC Escher

.

These large hatched spaces allow the album a splendid escape through the mind.

The blind father who went to jail after a heist went wrong is very endearing.

His passion for literature, his fascination

with Dante's

Hell

, his exploration of the nine circles, make

The Hunting Accident

a work that highlights the power of literature and that of the imagination.

An intellectual achievement

The rest of the list, even if it tends to sanction demanding comics with a touch of intellectuality, values ​​high quality albums.

The Special Jury Prize goes to

Dragman,

by Steven Appleby (Denoël Graphic).

This funny and poetic graphic novel on the question of gender, features the first transvestite superheroine, with a very British humor, which made Posy Simmonds scream with laughter.

The Audience Award goes to

Anaïs Nin, Sur la mer des mensonges

by Léonie Bischoff (Casterman), a fine exercise in tightrope walking on a strong and disturbing figure in 20th century literature.

We are impressed by the quality of analysis that springs from this fluid “graphic novel”, an X-ray of the talent and the dark side of Henry Miller's mistress.

The Prize for the series goes to

Paul à la maison

(La Pastèque).

Michel Rabagliati portrays his fictionalized life as a Quebec designer there.

In the series,

Paul in Quebec

had already been distinguished by the Audience Award in Angoulême in 2010.

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Created this year by the festival with the Ministry of National Education, the High School

Students

Prize recognizes

Peau d'homme

d'Hubert and Zanzim (Glénat).

An album already amply rewarded but which proves that it also touches high school students by the finesse of its reflection on the genre.

the High School Students Prize has chosen to distinguish

Peau d'homme

from Hubert and Zanzim.

Glénat

The Heritage Prize is awarded to

L'Éclaireur,

by Lynd Ward (Monsieur Toussaint Louverture), a sumptuous box set that highlights all the woodcutting work of one of the precursors of the graphic novel.

A prize list that gives pride of place to the graphic novel

The Goscinny Prize goes to Loo Hui Phang for the

Black-out

album

with Hugues Micol (Futuropolis).

This album in the form of diving into the mysteries of American cinema from the 1930s to 1950s, features a mixed-race actor of African, Chinese and Amerindian descent, capable of playing all “ethnic” roles.

Comics, sometimes realistic, sometimes phantasmagorical, question the power of images, as well as the ideologies and mythologies of Hollywood.

This album offers a plunge into the mysteries of American cinema from the 30s to the 50s. Futuropolis

The Fauve Polar SNCF is attributed to

GoSt111,

by Mark Eacersall, Henri Scala and Marion Mousse, at Glénat.

The Revelation Prize goes to Tanz!

by Maurane Mazars (Le Lombard) and the Audacity Prize at

La Mécanique du sage by

Gabrielle Piquet (Atrabile).

Finally, two Angoumoisin awards are reserved for young audiences: the Youth Prize 8-12 years for

Le Club des

Amis de Sophie Guerrive (2024) and the Youth Prize 12-16 years for volume 1 of

Middlewest

, by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona ( Urban Comics).

The Angoulême 2021 prize list therefore gives pride of place to graphic novels, demanding comics, sometimes even experimental.

But there are no manga or mainstream bestsellers there ... Too bad.

The entire list

Fauve d'Or - Best Album Award

The hunting accident,

Landis Blair and David L. Carlson, Translated from the American by Julie Sibony, Sonatine

Fauve d'Angoulême - Special Jury Prize

Dragman,

Steven Appleby, Translated from English by Lili Sztajn, Denoël Graphic

Fauve d'Angoulême - Revelation award

Tanz !,

Maurane Mazars, Le Lombard

Fauve d'Angoulême - Audacity Award

La Mécanique du sage,

Gabrielle Piquet, Atrabile

Fauve d'Angoulême - Series Prize

Paul at home,

Michel Rabagliati, La Watermelon

Fauve d'Angoulême - High school student prize

Created by the festival with the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports, in partnership with Cultura.

Man's

skin, Hubert and Zanzim, Glénat

Fauve d'Angoulême - Alternative comic book


prize KUTI, The Thick book of KUTI

(Finland)

Fauve d'Angoulême - France Televisions Audience Award

Anaïs Nin, on the sea of ​​lies,

Léonie Bischoff, Casterman

Fauve d'Angoulême - Youth Prize 8-12 years old

The Friends Club,

Sophie Guerrive, 2024

Fauve d'Angoulême - Youth Prize 12-16 years old

Middlewest, Tome 1 Anger

, Skottie Young and Jorge Corona,


Translated from the American by Julien Di Giacaomo, Urban Comics

Fauve Polar SNCF

GoSt111,

Mark Eacersall, Henri Scala and Marion Mousse, Glénat

Fauve d'Angoulême - Heritage Prize

L'Éclaireur,

Lynd Ward, Mr. Toussaint Louverture

Goscinny Prize

Black-out

, Loo Hui Phang, with Hugues Micol, Futuropolis

Konishi Prize

Tokyo Tarareba Girls

by Akiko Higashimura, for Miyako Slocombe's translation, The Black Lizard

Source: lefigaro

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