Designer Lou Lubie’s hair plays a big part in her life. From biological laboratories to specialized hair salons, we learn that all types of hair do not grow the same, do not react in the same way and that maintaining textured hair is not an easy task. Because hers, from a mixed race born in Reunion, are frizzy. A real investigation, also with political developments: Rootsby Lou Lubie, published by Delcourt.
The American Craig Thompson also talks about roots, his own – he comes from Wisconsin – and those of Ginseng, grown in the fields around the family home, in the United States, as well as in Asia. Ginseng Roots is an extraordinary report on the history, production and economy of the miraculous root. Published by Casterman.
The earth still with Battlefieldsa co-edition of La Revue Dessine and Delcourt. Inès Léraud led the investigation, Pierre Van Hove put it into images. Here, we are talking about the great reorganization of agricultural land in France in the 20th century: consolidation, to also better understand what today’s farmers are experiencing.
This is the case with The Escamotor. Sébastien Goethals and Philippe Collin seek to understand the personality and role of a troubled and elusive character, Gabriel Chahine, who was then navigating between small radical groups and General Intelligence. On the far left, the Action Directe movement descended into violence: villainous robberies and political assassinations. The Escamotor published by Futuropolis.
The 1970s also saw the Bobigny trial in 1972 where Gisèle Halimi defended the young Marie-Claire, a minor at the time of the events, prosecuted for having aborted after a rape. Bobigny 1972by Marie Bardiaux-Vaïente and Carole Maurel, at Glénat.
Chez Bayard Graphic, The EMOJI Revolution signed David Groison and Paul Rey, tells nothing less than how the large family of little icons that accompany the billions of messages exchanged every day all around the planet was born, developed and continues to grow. To know everything about Smileys and their pixelated companions.
The jury for the 2025 franceinfo Prize for current affairs and reporting comics will meet on Wednesday January 15. The result will be announced on air in “Tout public” between 1:30 p.m. and 2 p.m.
The 2025 selection:
Love, sex and the promised land, by Salomé Parent-Rachdi and Deloupy (Les Arènes)
Bobigny 1972, by Marie Bardiaux-Vaïente and Carole Maurel (Glénat)
Battlefields, by Inès Léraud and Pierre Van Hove (Delcourt/La Revue Dessinée)
The Escamotor, by Sébastien Goethals and Philippe Collin (Futuropolis)
Ginseng Rootsby Craig Thompson (Casterman)
The Man Who Has Seen Too Muchby Ali Arkady, Simon Rochepeau, Isaac Wens (Futuropolis)
We will live, by Joann Sfar (Arènes)
Rootsby Lou Lubie (Delcourt)
The EMOJI Revolution, by David Groison and Paul Rey (Bayard Graphic)
Breathe on the fireby Joe Sacco (Futuropolis)
Wagnerby Thierry Chavant, Mathieu Olivier, Benjamin Royer (Les Arènes)
