The comic strip “Two naked girls” by Luz, former cartoonist for Charlie Hebdo, won on Wednesday the Grand Prix de la critique from the Association of Comic Strip Critics and Journalists (ACBD) and the Wolinski Comic Strip Prize from Point 2024 .
This comic book, published by Albin Michel, is “the story of a canvas painted in 1919 by Otto Müller, a German gypsy painter classified among the artists degenerated by the Third Reich, (…) told through the subjective prism of the painting itself: each box represents what +sees+ the table”, indicates the ACBD in a press release.
The association was touched by the “rich and documented subject, as well as the original narrative process”, which “make sense on many levels”. “They evoke the different approaches and emotions aroused by art, they outline the geopolitical torments of the 20th century, they also question the question of censorship, obviously central to the work and career of the author.”
“In this captivating album, Luz retraces a century of history through the journey of a painting: Hitler's rise to power, state anti-Semitism, the persecution of modern art…”, comments the jury of the Wolinski Comics Prize from Le Point magazine, in a separate press release.
Luz was one of the pillars of Charlie Hebdo. On January 7, 2015, he escaped the attack on the satirical newspaper due to being late for the editorial conference.
published on December 4 at 8:11 p.m., AFP
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