Missed It: Raymond Leblanc Foundation 2011 Contest Winners Kick Off Crowded Euro-Awards Season

Whereas the various North American comics awards are spread throughout the calendar year, usually tied into a specific festival or convention, it seems like -- seems like -- that most of the awards in French-language comics come at the end of the year in a late Fall build-up to the next January's Angouleme. While there are awards at festivals and conventions, they seem tied to that show in a different way than the English-language programs. What this means is around mid-Fall one starts to hear about various awards being named, and eventually one will pique your interest because of a familiar name from previous years. For me, the one this year that made me think it was awards time was this announcement of the awards given out by la Fondation Raymond Leblanc. That's a themed contest (this year's was "Du réel au virtuel: Internet, mon amour") for short story makers with a shared 10,000-euro prize for the top three finishers, the top six published in an album -- a nice, straightforward award, it seems to me. Kim Gerard Roselier won first prize with "Pas très Net." Other winners were Fabrice Noel, Charlotte Meert, Matthieu Chouteau, Boris Pramatarov and Emeline Chan Kam-shu.
 
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