FAUVE D’OR AWARD FOR BEST ALBUM: Écoute, Jolie Márcia Keep reading to check out all the winners of Angouleme 2022, and don’t forget that we have a list of the full official selection – with links to any English language editions here.Īll translations of titles and synopses are via DeepL.

Three winners – in Best Series ( Émile Bravo‘s Spirou reimagining) Special Jury ( Raphaël Meltz, Louise Moaty, and Simon Roussin‘s Des Vivants/The Living) and Revelation ( Camille Lavaud Benito‘s La Vie Souterraine ) Prize categories were set in wartime France or Belgium. World War II resistance stories were also a curious trend in the 2022 Angoulême awards. The USA was represented by the late Howard Cruse‘s graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby in the Heritage reprint category and Kat Leyh‘s Snapdragon in the Kids Prize (Ages 12-16) category. The two Canadian awardees were Michael DeForge‘s Familiar Face (the Audacity Award) and Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny and Christian Quesnel‘s Mégantic won the inaugeral Éco Fauve for ecologically themed works. Écoute, Jolie Márcia is his sixth book with the publisher. He currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. His first graphic novel with the company Tungstène (Tungsten) scored him an Angoulême award in the Polar (Crime Thriller) category.

Since 2015 he has been releasing graphic novels with boutique French publisher ça et là, a relationship that has already earned him award recognition. In 2002 he entered the European market as an illustrator for Belgian publisher Le Lombard. A self-taught artist, the Fauve D’Or winner Quintanilha has been releasing graphic novels since 1999.

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