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September 8, 2009


Your Sollies-Ville Festival Prix Winners

imageArt Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly shared the grand prize given out by the Festival de Sollies-Ville at the conclusion of the 21st edition of their show, an effort that included appearances by a number of comics heavy-hitters ranging from Lewis Trondheim and Chris Ware. The Grand Prix Soleil d'or was given to the pair for their lifetime achievements, which span each many honor spread across two distinguished individual careers as well as their shared publishing enterprises. The pair were on hand to receive their award. Other prizes went to the Lorenzo Mattotti adaptation of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" in Delcourt Bob Dylan Revisited as best comic, Jean-Pierre Gibrat's Matteo (Futuropolis) as best album, Matthieu Lauffray's Long John Silver (Dargaud) as best series, Charles Burns' Black Hole (Delcourt) as best foreign album, and the Coup de coeur award to Daphne Collignon for Correspondant de guerre (Soleil). Photos of the awards event are to be found through the link.
 
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