Were heard that the top was accrued in advance

AAngoulême, at the international Festival of comics, it rewards authors. Not heroes. It honors those who create more than those who sell. The selection of the jury chaired by Baru are symbolic. Thus, the large award was presented to Art Spiegelman. No one will challenge the great creator of Maus (or how to tell the hell of the concentration camps by seeing the world as a struggle between cats, mice and rats) deserves to be in the Pantheon of the BD. It just regret the masterpiece of the American date of the end of the 1970s!

Seeking more to give a second chance to albums past relatively unnoticed and to reward already acquired commercial success, the jury of the 38 th Festival sought especially surprising. "Were heard that the top was accrued in advance." "This us has upset", explains one of the members. Result, then that fact the rumor predicted that the fauve of gold album would "Quai d'Orsay" (tragicomic everyday life in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the time of a Dominique de Villepin super-beautiful, but terribly hilarious real), the jury awarded Manuele Fior for "five thousand kilometres per second. A work in watercolour, aesthetically appealing, but the sharp storytelling graphics will seduce rather demanding audience.

In the list, however include many works making the synthesis between the requirement, a strong words and a possible career in the tanks. "asterios polyp", a graphic novel with a dive in the crisis of conscience of an architect, received the special prize of the jury.

This work of David Mazzucchelli should please fans of Paul Auster that comic should not be a mere entertainment. The tawny revelation Prize awarded Elodie Durand to "BRACKET". Autobiographical moving, tells the story in a simple drawing of battle against the disease of a young girl. Eyes on the world recognizes the pavement of Joe Sacco, "Gaza 1956". Historical testimony in pictures, the "Gaza" of Sacco is the detailed story of daily life in occupied territory who remembers tragic events while the rest of the world had the eye on the Suez canal. The FNAC SNCF audience award was awarded to any young Julie Maroh for "blue is a warm color" or how the life of Clementine switches the day where she met Emma.

"Belleville Story" (a very rhythmic polar Chinese sauce), Gauguin"(of superb plates to plunge into the Tahiti of the painter), the very original"Brick and blood"(a serial killer massacre the inhabitants of the Familistère) or"For the Empire"(an initiatory Django recounting the adventures of a handful of mercenaries Romans) have all won a blow of projector, but will remain in the shadows.

Rewarded the most public work is the series "He was once in France" or the adventures of the resistance and collabos during the second world war. A series in four volumes by Fabien Nury, a writer who is a specialty in the staging of themes of contemporary history.

Beyond the glance in the retro, Angoulême 2011 will also allowed the ball to the expectations. 2011 should be placed under the sign of the cinema for the comic strip. Between the Titeuf PTA 3D, "The cat of the Rabbi", Sfar, the "Tintin" of Spielberg, "Largo Winch 2" and "The Smurfs", the ninth art will marry with the seventh. On the front of the albums, "Quai d'Orsay" then the return of "XIII" (without Van Hamme), tome 2 "Blast" expected of Manu Larcenet. Guy Delisle, who already had made travel to Shenzhen, Pyongyang and in Burma, we will take him to Jerusalem.