Cristau, Servain and Dorison winners of the Landerneau BD prize for their album “Ulysse & Cyrano”

This album tells the story of a beautiful encounter against a backdrop of culinary passion in France during the Trente Glorieuses.

The Landerneau comic strip prize was awarded on Tuesday November 26, 2024 to a trio of authors, Antoine Cristau and Xavier Dorison for the script and Stéphane Servain for the drawing, for Ulysse & Cyrano, a fiction about gastronomy.

In this album published by Casterman in June, Ulysse, heir to a family of industrialists, will deviate from the career promised to him after meeting Cyrano, a passionate cook.

The award-winning comic “amazed the jury as a whole. I took great pleasure in reading this album supported by a very effective staging in the service of a strong and moving story”commented the president of the jury, the designer Mathieu Sapin, quoted in a press release.

The BD Landerneau prize from E. Leclerc Cultural Spaces is worth 6,000 euros and offers a promotional campaign in the brand’s stores.

It claims to have sold 6.5 million comics in the year to September, which represents 22% of the turnover in books from its 230 stores.