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

Wednesday 27th November 2024 05:50 AM

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

France Télévisions – Culture Editorial

Published on 27/11/2024 11:40

Reading time: 1min

Excerpt from the cover of the album “Ulysse & Cyrano” by Antoine Cristau and Xavier Dorison on the screenplay and Stéphane Servain on the drawing, Landerneau BD 2024 prize. (CASTERMAN)

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.

Cover of the album “Ulysse & Cyrano” by Antoine Cristau and Xavier Dorison on the screenplay and Stéphane Servain on the drawing, Landerneau BD 2024 prize. (CASTERMAN)

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.