Le Defosseur Wins Prix Jules Verne Le Defosseur, the first album in the Pest series by Corbeyran and Amaury Bouillez, won the Prix Jules Verne De BD 2005 on April 10. It is given to the best comic of the fantastic in the European market. It looks like the Delcourt album, or a second in the series, perhaps, will be released late this summer.
In other European comics news, the publisher Dupuis has confirmed the rumors that it intends to return to the Angouleme Festival in 2006, which if nothing else should make for some interesting structural problems for the already jam-packed show.