November 26, 2013
Go, Look: Live Fast Die You
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Your Sélection Officielle (And Other Lists) For Angouleme 2014
The 41st iteration of the Festival De La Bande Dessinée has released its various prize nomination lists for the forthcoming major event, schedule to begin in late January. That means the
Sélection Officiele (the show's main merit prize pool), the
Sélection jeunesse (books aimed at young readers), the
Sélection patrimoine (historical/reprints) and the
Sélection polar (detective/crime fiction with I believe an emphasis on adaptation).
There are works and cartoonists familiar to North American readers all over these lists. This includes as part of the Sélection Officielle the french-language versions of Joseph Lambert's
Annie Sullivan And The Trials Of Helen Keller, the first trades for
Hawkeye and
Saga, Ted Stearn's
Fuzz And Pluck, Alison Bechdel's
Are You My Mother?, Derf's
My Friend Dahmer, Peter Blegvad's
The Book Of Leviathan, Rutu Modan's
The Property and Tom Gauld's
Goliath. The Prix Patrimonie is festooned with work familiar to North American authors, Paul Pope and Ben Hatke scored nomination in the Jeunesse/Young Persons category, and a volume of
Scalped is up for Prix Polar.
It's also interesting to me that the prizes have seemed to settle into a pattern that looks like it may hold for a while now, after a few years there several years ago when they seemed in a state of massive structural flux.
Congratulations to all nominees.
The lists:
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Selection Officielle
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Ainsi se tut Zarathoustra, Nicolas Wild (La Boite a Bulles/Arte éditions)
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Annie Sullivan & Helen Keller, Joseph Lambert (ca et la/Cambourakis)
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L'Attaque des titans Vol. 1, Hajime Isayama (Pika)
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C'est toi ma maman?, Alison Bechdel (Denoel Graphic)
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Carnet du Pérou, Fabcaro (Six Pieds sous terre)
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Cesare Vol. 1, Fuyumi Soryo (Ki-oon)
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Charly 9, Richard Guérineau and Jean Teulé (Delcourt)
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Le Chien qui louche, Etienne Davodeau (Futuropolis)
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Come Prima, Alfred (Delcourt)
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Deadline, Christian Rossi and Laurent-Frédéric Bollée (Glénat)
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L'Etranger, Jacques Ferrandez (Gallimard)
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Fenetres sur rue, Pascal Rabaté (Soleil)
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Fuzz and Pluck Vol. 2, Ted Stearn (Cornélius)
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Goggles, Tetsuya Toyoda (Ki-oon)
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Goliath, Tom Gauld (L’Association)
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Les Guerres silencieuses, Jaime Martin (Dupuis)
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Hawkeye Vol. 1, David Aja, Javier Pulido and Matt Fraction (Panini)
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In God We Trust, Winshluss (Les Requins Marteaux)
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Jonathan Vol. 16, Cosey (Le Lombard)
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Kililana Song Vol. 2, Benjamin Flao (Futuropolis)
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Lastman Vol. 1, Bastien Vivès, Balak and Michael Sanlaville (Casterman)
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Le Livre de Léviathan, Peter Blegvad (L'Apocalypse)
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Macanudo Vol. 4, Liniers (La Pastèque)
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Mauvais genre, Chloé Cruchaudet (Delcourt)
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Mon ami Dahmer, Derf Backderf (ca et la)
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Opus Vol. 1, Satoshi Kon (Imho)
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Paco les mains rouges Vol. 1, Eric Sagot and Fabien Vehlmann (Dargaud)
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Un petit détour et autres racontars Vol. 3, Hervé Tanquerelle and Gwen de Bonneval (Sarbacane)
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La Propriété, Rutu Modan (Actes Sud BD)
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Le Roi des mouches Vol. 3, Mezzo and Pirus (Glénat)
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Saga Vol. 1, Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan (Urban Comics)
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Les Temps mauvais: Madrid 1936-1939, Carlos Giménez (Fluide Glacial)
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La Tendresse des pierres, Marion Fayolle (Magnani)
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Vapor, Max (L’Apocalypse)
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Les Voleurs de Carthage Vol. 1, Hervé Tanquerelle and Appollo (Dargaud)
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Prix Jeunesse
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Agito Cosmos Vol. 2, Fabien Mense and Olivier Milhaud (Glénat)
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Battling Boy Vol. 1, Paul Pope (Dargaud)
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Carnets de Cerise Vol. 2, Joris Chamblain and Aurélie Neyret (Soleil)
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Détective Rollmops, Olivier Philipponeau and Renaud Farace (The Hoochie Coochie)
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Jane, le Renard et moi, Isabelle Arsenault and Fanny Britt (La Pastèque)
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Kairos Vol. 1, Ulysse Malassagne (Ankama)
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Klaw Vol. 1, Joel Jurion and Antoine Ozanam (Le Lombard)
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Louca Vol. 1, Bruno Decquier (Dupuis)
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Le Monde de Milo Vol. 1, Christophe Ferreira and Richard Marazano (Dargaud)
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Space Brothers Vol. 1, Chuya Koyama (Pika)
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Walhalla Vol. 1, Marc Lechuga and Nicolas Pothier (Glénat/Treize Etrange)
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Zita, la Fille de l'espace Vol. 1, Ben Hatke (Rue de Sèvres)
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Prix Patrimoine
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Amy et Jordan, Mark Beyer (Cambourakis)
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Cowboy Henk, Herr Seele and Kamagurka (Fremok)
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Fritz the Cat, Robert Crumb (Cornélius)
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Frontline Combat Vol. 2, Harvey Kurtzman (Akileos)
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Jack Kirby Anthologie, Jack Kirby (Urban Comics)
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Melody, Sylvie Rancourt (Ego comme X)
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Nancy: 1943-1945, Ernie Bushmiller (Actes Sud / L'An 2)
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Poissons en Eaux troubles, Susumu Katsumata (Le Lézard noir)
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Spirou par Y. Chaland, Yves Chaland (Dupuis)
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Les Trois Royaumes, Luo Guanzhong (Fei)
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Prix Polar
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Heartbreak Valley, Simon Roussin (Editions 2024)
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Lartigues et Prévert, Benjamin Adam (La Pastèque)
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Ma Révérence, Wilfrid Lupano (Delcourt)
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Scalped Vol. 8 , R.M. Guéra and Jason Aaron (Urban Comics)
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Tyler Cross, Bruno and Fabien Nury (Dargaud)
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This year's festival starts January 30.
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Go, Look: That 1981 Marshall Rogers Batman Portfolio
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If I Were In London, I’d Go To This
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Go, Look: Gabrielle Dell’Otto Mini-Gallery
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
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that's some Iron Fist double-page spread.
* Janelle Asselin talks to
Delicia Williams. Steve Morris talks to
Bill Willingham. Carl Antonowicz talks to
Dakota McFadzean.
* it's nice to see
people writing about Al Plastino, one of those super-talented mainstream comics guys that kept that industry afloat for decades and seemed to pursue that vocation in honorable fashion.
* Martin Wisse and I have pretty much the same take on retailer/industry advocate Brian Hibbs' call for a return to serialization as a lesson to be gleaned from the Fantagraphics crowd-funder, only
he states it much more forcefully and eloquently than I did.
*
Martin Wisse springboards from a
J. Caleb Mozzocco piece on DC putting crossover content into multiple trade editions, and how frustrating that must be for people paying full price for both. I'd never thought of that. My primary takeaway when I encounter that is actual serial-comic oriented, that when they have to put in a related series into a trade for a story to make sense, or for it to make more sense, I always wonder why they're releasing series that don't make optimal sense on their own.
* I haven't caught up with Paul Gravett in a while. You can join me in reacquainting yourself via three solid pieces on
Howard Hardiman,
Chihoi and
Sofiane Belaskri.
* not comics: I don't cover a lot of the adaptation into film/tv type news here, but what I remember of
Preacher would seem to indicate that
it might make a very good TV show of that particular kind of TV show that's super-popular now, and I always though that the Brubaker/Phillips work
Sleeper was a fine twist of a genre idea of the rare kind that became more interesting with the turn-up-to-11 nature of superheroes involved and
would make someone in that 40-55 age group a pretty good movie vehicle if executed well. I also like all of those creators and hope every single one of them is due a payday for their hard work. As these were properties created after 1990, I suppose there's a fair chance they will be.
* Gregory Schmidt on
Shifter.
* finally, I find most of the concerns about comics criticism expressed
here severely foreign to my own interests, but I don't write a lot of criticism and I was never in the first rank of those who do back when I did, so what I'm up to isn't at issue.
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Happy 55th Birthday, Karen Green!
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Happy 51st Birthday, Paul Guinan!
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Happy 40th Birthday, Jonathan Rosenberg!
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