International Array of Winners at Angouleme Includes Satrapi, Taniguchi and Alex Robinson

In a ceremony that looks to have included some words from cartoonist Art Spiegelman on the recently deceased and much revered Will Eisner, the prizes for the Festival International De La Bande Dessinee followed through on the international flavor of its nominees with winners from several countries. The big American winner of the night was Alex Robinson, who scored the Prix du premier album for his De Mal En Pis, which someone correct me if I'm wrong but as Box Office Poison was at least nominated in all the major American comic book awards and garnered the cartoonist the Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition award at the Eisners a few years back.

The winner of the big prize, Best Album, went to Poulet aux Prunes by Marjane Satrapi, perhaps best know to North American readers for her incredible showing in American book markets with two volumes of her memoir Persepolis. As of 9:30 ET Friday morning, there was a great picture of Satrapi on the front page of the Festival's site.

The full list of winners is here, but I'm excerpting what look to be the bigger prizes -- at least the ones that seem to correspond to categories I mostly sort of understand. Also, I'm keeping their spellings.

I'm not sure this is on anyone's official list, but it looks like scanning the write-ups a special prize was given to Yoshihiro Tatsumi, leader of the Gekiga movement.

Prix du meilleur album (Best Album)
Poulet aux prunes, Marjane Satrapi (L'Association)

Prix du dessin (Art)
Le sommet des dieux, Jiro Tanigushi (Kana)

Prix du scenario (Writing)
Comme des lapins, Ralf Koning (Glenat)

Prix du premier album (First Album)
De mal en pis, Alex Robinson (Rackham)

Prix du patrimoine de la bande dessinee (Best Historical Reprint)
Le concombre masque, Mandryka (Dargaud)

Prix de la serie (Series)
Les formidables aventures de lapinot, Lewis Trondheim (Dargaud)

It should be interesting to see the reaction over the next several days, as some French artists had complained that the Festival had aimed broad on purpose and to its detriment with its nominee list.
 
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