The French editions of Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years within the Oil Sands and James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno, and Jordie Bellaire’s The Nice House on the Lake made the Selection within the operating for the 2024 Fnac-France Inter Prix de BD. Finalists might be introduced December 7, 2023, and winner revealed January 11, 2024.
Announcing the twenty-book choice, Fnac-France Inter stated:
“Created to promote the ninth art in all its diversity, the Fnac-France Inter Prix de BD aims to promote artistic creation and new authors to the general public. And so, for the sixth year, the literary competition presents itself and unveils the 20 comics in the running”
Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years on the Oil Sands – translated as Environnement Toxique [tr. ‘Toxic Environment’] by Alice Marchand and printed by Casterman -released in French in March this yr, some six months after the 2022 English language launch from Drawn & Quarterly. The Nice House on the Lake was serialised in 12-issues by DC between June 2021 and December 2022; the French editions of the collections, translated by Maxime Le Dain, have been launched in January and March 2023 by Urban Comics. The two works have already obtained vital acclaim within the English language, not least reaching Eisner Awards, so will probably be fascinating to see how they carry out within the French crucial panorama.
Aside from the 2 acquainted names within the Selection for the 2024 Fnac-France Inter Prix de BD, there are a selection of different fascinating titles – from a reportage about an Auschwitz survivor on her ultimate go to to the camp age 95 (Ginette Kolinka et al’s Adieu Birkenau), to the charming fictional exploits of a younger lady and her dream to turn into a witch (Jérôme Pélissier and Carine Hinder‘s Brume). There are a mix of murder mysteries ranging from the humourous (Jordi Lafebre‘s Je Suis Leur Silence; tr. ‘I Am Their Silence’) to the macabre (Carlos Portela & Keko‘s Contrition). There is also light magical realism (Zelba‘s Le Grand Incident and Kid Toussaint & Aurélie Guarin‘s Les Vies de Charlie; tr. ‘The Lives of Charlie‘), and adaptations of classic novels such as Milo Manara‘s take on Umberto Eco‘s Name of the Rose, and Georges Bess on Victor Hugo‘s Hunchback of Notre Dame. And that’s to not point out a Marjane Satrapi-edited anthology of all-stars in regards to the girls’s rights protests in Iran.
The Prix de BD has been run by main French retail chain Fnac and France Inter radio station since 2018 (winner awarded in January of the next yr). Twenty books are chosen by Fnac booksellers and France Inter editorial employees for the choice; finalists are determined by a public jury of thirty readers plus 5 French Culture Pass members; a ultimate skilled jury – chaired by France Inter radio presenter Rebecca Manzoni, specialist journalists and Fnac booksellers – determine the winner. The 2024 Prix de BD is eligible to all books launched in 2023.
The January award announcement annually coincides with Fnac shops’ “Month of Comics” (“Mois de la BD”), the place comics are positioned extra prominently on show in shops. Following declaration, the successful e-book will get extra promotion at Fnac in addition to on France Inter radio – with particular programming on the successful work and its writer(s), together with a visitor spot on Manzoni’s information and tradition radio present Totémic the next day.
The Fnac-France Inter Prix de BD 2023 prizewinner was Valentine Cuny-Le Callet’s Perpendiculaire au soleil [tr. Perpendicular to the Sun], a correspondence between the French writer and a US loss of life row inmate, printed by Delcourt. Cuny-Le Callet’s e-book additionally gained the 2022 Artémisia award for ladies cartoonists. It has not but been launched in English.
The Selection for the Fnac-France Inter Prix de BD 2024
Adieu Birkenau, by written by Ginette Kolinka, Jean-David Morvan, Victor Matet, artwork by Ricard Efa, Cesc, and Roger Sole (Albin Michel)
Brume, written by Jérôme Pélissier, artwork by Carine Hinder (Glenat)
Ceux Qui Me Touchent – histoire full [Those Who Touch Me – the complete story], written by Damien Marie, artwork by Laurent Bonneau (Bamboo/Grand Angle)
Chumbo, by Matthia Lehmann (Casterman) — from the writer of Parallel
Contrition, by Carlos Portela & Keko; initially printed in Spanish, French translation Alexandra Carrasco (Denoël)
Environnement Toxique [Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands], Kate Beaton; English-French translation Alice Marchand (Casterman)
Femme, Vie, Liberté [‘Women, Life, Freedom’], anthology edited by Marjane Satrapi (Iconoclaste) —- Featuring the work of Joann Sfar, Coco, Mana Neyestani, Catel, Pascal Rabaté, Patricia Bolanos, Paco Roca, Bahareh Akrami, Hippolyte, Shabnam Adiban, Lewis Trondheim, Deloupy, Touka Neyestani, Bee, Winshluss, Nicolas Wild, and Hamoun.
Frontier, by Guillaume Singelin (Rue de Sevres) — Singelin’s earlier work PTSD was printed by First Second in 2019
Je Suis Leur Silence [‘I Am Their Silence‘], by Jordi Lafebre (Dargaud) — from the writer of Always Never.
L’Ombre Des Lumières, tome 1: L’Ennemi du style humain [‘The Shadow of Light, volume 1: The Enemy of Mankind‘], written by Alain Ayroles, artwork by Richard Guérineau (Delcourt)
La Brute et le Divin [‘The Brutal and the Divine‘], by Léonard Chemineau (Rue de Sevres)
La Femme à l’Étoile [‘Woman with a Star‘], by Anthony Pastor (Casterman)
La Marche Brume [The Mist-Walker], by Fert Stéphane (Dargaud) — digital version accessible in English from Europe Comics
Le Grand Incident [‘The Great Incident‘], by Zelba (Futuropolis)
Le Nom de la Rose [The Name of the Rose], Umberto Eco, tailored by Milo Manara (Glenat)
Les Guerres de Lucas [‘The Wars of Lucas‘], written by Laurent Hopman, artwork by Renaud Roche (Deman) — graphic novel about director George Lucas
Les Vies de Charlie [‘The Lives of Charlie‘], written by Kid Toussaint, artwork by Aurélie Guarin (Dupuis)
Victor Hugo‘s Notre-Dame de Paris [Hunchback of Notre Dame], tailored by Georges Bess (Glenat)
Shiki: 4 Saisons au Japon [‘Shiki: 4 Seasons in Japan’], Rosalie Stroesser (Rivages)
The Nice House on the Lake, written by James Tynion IV, artwork by Álvaro Martínez Bueno, colors by Jordie Bellaire; English-French translation Maxime Le Dain (Urban Comics)
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