The jury chaired by Mathieu Sapin recognized the trio Antoine Cristau, Xavier Dorison and Stéphane Servain for this beautiful story of friendship tied around the culinary art.
The Landerneau comic strip prize was awarded Tuesday to a trio of authors, Antoine Cristau and Xavier Dorison for the script and Stéphane Servain for the drawing, for Ulysse & Cyranoa 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. The great cook and owner of a restaurant years ago gave up everything to live a recluse and spend his time between fishing, hunting and the pleasure of cooking refined and generous dishes. He offers the young man a piece of terrine of which he has the secret. A gesture that will trigger an ardent passion in the young boy for the culinary art.
Cuisine that brings people together
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. Emancipation, transmission, praise of cuisine that brings people together, of friendship, the landscape of post-war France… This remarkable story, both moving and edifying, follows Frontier a science fiction album by Guillaume Singelin which tells the story of the rush of Humanity, forced to flee its planet of origin, towards space beyond the solar system.
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.
Ulysse & Cyrano, Stéphane Servain (drawing), Xavier Dorison and Antoine Cristau (screenplay), Casterman, 34.90 euros.
