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The jury of the Angoulême Comics Festival announced on Saturday that the Fauve d'or 2024 for best album of the year was awarded to "Monica", by the American Daniel Clowes. This graphic novel published in October is the story of the life of an ordinary American woman, through a multitude of very diverse stories.

The American Daniel Clowes won the Fauve d'or on Saturday for best album of the year with

Monica

, announced the jury of the Angoulême Comics Festival. 

Monica

, a graphic novel published in October by Delcourt, is the story of the life of an ordinary American woman, through a multitude of very diverse stories.

The winner absent due to Covid-19

This book, highly appreciated by critics, among others, earned Daniel Clowes, 62 years old, enough votes from his peer authors to reach the final of the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême this year. But the American was beaten by the winner Posy Simmonds, crowned Wednesday evening. The winner of this Fauve d'or, who lives in Oakland, California, was unable to make the trip to Angoulême.

“Daniel Clowes wanted to come. He came from San Francisco, he arrived in Paris. But the Covid stopped him in Paris,” said his publisher Guy Delcourt, who received the trophy on the stage of the Angoulême Theater . Posy Simmonds had also been prevented from coming from London three days earlier by a toothache.

The comic in search of recognition

American comics, or comics, are seeking greater recognition within the Angoulême Festival which is the bastion of traditional Franco-Belgian comics, then which has largely opened up to Japanese manga.

The publisher François Hercouët, from Urban Comics, took advantage of his appearance on the stage of the Théâtre d'Angoulême, on the occasion of another prize, to plead in favor of the appointment of a third artistic director of the Festival, comic specialist. The Angoulême Festival closes its doors on Sunday evening, at the end of an edition which once again attracted a very large audience.

Here is the complete list of winners for the 2024 edition:

  • Angoulême City Grand Prix

Posy Simmonds

  • Golden Fauve best album

Monica

by Daniel Clowes (Delcourt)

  • Special jury fawn

Hanbok

by Sophie Darcq (The Apocalypse)

  • Fawn of Honor

Moto Hagio for all of his work

  • Fawn of the series

The Nice House on the Lake

by Alvaro Martinez Bueno and James Tynion IV (Urban Comics)

  • Fauve revelation

The Embarrassed Man

by Matthieu Chiara (L’Agrume)

  • Fawn of high school students

The Face of Pavil

by Jérémy Perrodeau (Editions 2024)

  • Fauve audience award France Télévisions

Bad things to say

by Beatriz Lema (Sarbacane)

  • Heritage fawn

Four Japanese in San Francisco (1904-1924)

by Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama (Onapratut)

  • Eco-Fawn Raja

Frontier

by Guillaume Singelin (Label 619)

  • Fauve alternative comic

Aline

from Ik Ben Aline (Netherlands)

  • Fauve polar SNCF Voyageurs

Contrition

of Carlos Portela and Keko (Denoël Graphic)

  • Special Fauve of the Youth Grand Jury

Tied:

Yawns of the Afternoon t.1

by Shin'ya Komatsu (IMHO) and

Les Petites Reines

by Magali Le Huche (Sarbacane)

  • Youth fawn

The Incredible Miss Bang!

by Yoon-Sun Park (Dupuis)

  • René Goscinny Prize for best screenwriter

Julie Birmant for

Dalì: 1, before Gala

(Dargaud)

  • René Goscinny Prize for Young Screenwriter

Simon Boileau for

La Ride

(Dargaud)

  • Konishi Prize for Best Manga Translation

Odilon Grevet for

Bokko strategist t.1

by Sentaro Kubota and Hideki Mori (Vega Dupuis)

  • Angoulême school prices

All soft?

by Marie Bailliard (The Soluble Fish Workshop)

  • Poitiers academy college prices

Our twisted hearts t.1: It's about college

by Javier Rey Calatayud, Séverine Vidal and Manu Causse (Bayard)

  • Poitiers academy high school prices

Monsieur Apothéoz

by Julien Frey and Dawid (Glénat)

  • Golden Elvis for best rock comic (unofficial)

Judee Sill

by Alonso Iglesias and Juan Diaz Canales (Free Area)