Your 2009 Grand Prix de la Critique BD Winner: Posy Simmonds’ Tamara Drewe



Posy Simmonds' lovely and humorous Tamara Drewe has won the big French-language comics industry critics' prize, the Grand Prix de la Critique Bande Dessinee given out by the Association des Critiques et journalistes de Bande Dessinee. I'm not exactly sure of the process there; the articles I'm seeing tell me the prize is drawn from books published between November 2007 and October 2008, and that the ACBD has 81 members.

I was thinking the other day that Simmonds would make a fine choice for Angouleme's big prize, as her two last books were super-classy, accessible, and I think quite good; she fulfills the evolution of the art form part of that prize's qualifications through her use of hybrid strategies; and she offers a profile that hasn't been seen in festival Grand Prix winners for about ten years while continuing their recent tradition of honoring popular contemporary authors. Granted, I have no idea on what basis these things are voted, so I'm just projecting.
 
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