Le Fauve d'or d'Angoulême attributed to the graphic novel by the American David L. Carlson, "L'Accident de chasse"
Plate from the graphic novel "The Hunting Accident", by David L. Carlson, prize of the Fauve d'or at the Angoulême Comic Strip Festival 2021. © Editions Sonatine
Text by: Sophie Torlotin Follow
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45 albums selected and in the end a dozen distinguished books ... The Angoulême international comics festival awarded its prizes on Friday January 29 for a very special 2021 edition.
Covid obliges, the city of southwestern France has given up welcoming tens of thousands of 9th art enthusiasts as it does every year.
The public and the authors have an appointment in June, if the days look better.
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First attempt, master stroke: it is a first graphic novel which wins the Fauve d'or for best album.
In
The Hunting Accident
, American David L. Carlson tells the true story of a blind gangster in 1940s Chicago. Magnified by Landis Blair's black and white experiments, this story is an ode to literature and also a tour de force, in that it manages to represent the perception of a blind person.
The very young thirty-something Maurane Mazars wins the Revelation Prize, with her second album,
Tanz
, resulting from her graduation project.
We follow a young German dancer at the end of the 1950s who sets out to storm Broadway.
The public awards its Fauve to Léonie Bischoff's beautiful graphic novel,
Anaïs Nin on the sea of lies
.
There too it is a daring and successful project of biography of an author and muse, seized in the early 1930s.
And then one of the most awarded comics of 2020 leaves with the Fauve des lycéens.
It is
Peau d'homme
, a fable about transidentity, set in Renaissance Italy.
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