After having rewarded Pénélope Bagieu in 2019 for her Culottées, the Eisner Awards, the biggest rewards in world comics, have largely honored French creation, in its selection, this year.
Franco-Belgian comics can boast of standing out in about ten categories, among the thirty on offer.
The best US edition of a foreign work notably includes the
Altitude
album
by Olivier Bocquet (screenplay) and Jean-Marc Rochette as well as volume 2 of the
Irena
series
by Jean-David Morvan, Severine Tréfouël, and David Evrard.
For the first, the jury was seduced by the pictorial graphics of the designer serving his autobiographical story evoking his adolescence marked by his passion for the mountains.
Aile Froide, altitude 3954,
the autobiographical story of Jean-Marc Rochette.
Casterman
The moving children's comic book
Irena
featuring the true story of Polish social worker Irena Sendlerowa, who saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, follows suit.
The jury of the Eisner Awards was moved by the discreet heroine of the series
Irena
.
Glénat
The young audience size BD is decidedly the lion's share, with
Unbeatable
Pascal Jousselin contained in selections Best publication for children (9-12 years) and Best author.
A well-deserved place for this first volume of a jubilant series which plays a funny protagonist endowed with superpowers never leaving his little becoming black and yellow costume, always ready to defend the widow and the orphan.
Unbeatable, in the center, is a funny superhero.
Dupuis
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In an entirely different area,
Soon
, Thomas Cadène's explosive SF tale, where space exploration becomes the last resort for the survival of humanity, highlighted by the meticulous trait of Benjamin Adam, is not in rest.
Published as an album after its multimedia version by Dargaud, he was nominated in the categories Best digital comic and Best multimedia artist.
Soon
, nominated in two categories.
Dargaud
Thomas Cadène is also present in the Best webcomic with
BFF section,
an online comic produced with Joseph Safieddine and Clément Fabre.
In the same category,
Olive
, by Véro Cazot and Lucy Mazel, also published as an album by Dupuis, features a young 17-year-old girl, introverted, who has created an imaginary world shaken up by the arrival of Charlie, a outgoing girl with whom she must share her room at the boarding school, and Lenny, a mysterious astronaut who arrives in her imaginary world!
features a 17-year-old introverted girl who has created an imaginary world for herself.
Dupuis
Big names in American comics
More realistic,
The Invisible Difference
, the story inspired by its screenwriter Julie Dachez, diagnosed with Asperger's autism and illustrated by Mademoiselle Caroline, is part of the selection for Best publication inspired by a true story.
Finally, the excellent adaptation by David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave of Yuval Noah Harari's essay on the history of humanity, sold ten million copies,
Sapiens
.
This theoretical text of 500 pages as attractive as an adventure story under the leadership of the two authors captivated the jury who nominated it in the category Best adaptation from another medium.
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Sapiens
or how man became the master of the world
Sapiens
album
e
ntremêlant humor about science, also conquered the jury.
Albin Michel
Our national authors will have to make their way among big names in American comics, from Joe Sacco to Craig Thompson via Adrian Tomine, at Comic-Con, which will take place this year from July 23 to 25.