The Association of Comic Strip Journalists and Critics unveils the 15 titles in competition for the ACBD 2025 Critics’ Grand Prize. At the end of a first round of voting, the members of the ACBD have selected 15 titles from which they will choose a final selection of 5 albums. This will be announced on Saturday November 23, 2024, on the sidelines of the bdBOUM Festival in Blois. The winner, subsequently chosen by a final vote, will be revealed on December 3, 2024.
Here are the 15 albums in the running, in alphabetical order:
- Inside, by Will McPhail (404 ÉDITIONS)
- Tonight is a nightmare, by Nicole Claveloux (CORNÉLIUS)
- Two naked girls, from Luz (ALBIN MICHEL)
- Ideal, by Baptiste Chaubard and Thomas Hayman (SARBACANE)
- The Illuminated, by Laurent-Frédéric Bollée and Jean Dytar (DELCOURT)
- Impenetrable, by Alix Garin (LE LOMBARD)
- It’s lonely at the centre of the Earth, de Zoe Thorogood (HI COMICS)
- Les Julys, by Nylso, (MISMA)
- Oh, Lenny, by Aurélien Maury, (TANIBIS)
- The Medusa King T1, by Brecht Evens (ACTES SUD)
- The Route, by Manu Larcenet (DARGAUD)
- New blood, by Jean-Christophe Chauzy (CASTERMAN)
- Shubeik Lubeik, your desires are orders, by Deena Mohamed (STEINKIS)
- Ulysses & Cyrano, by Antoine Cristau, Xavier Dorison and Stéphane Servain (CASTERMAN)
- Walicho, by Sole Otero (HERE AND THERE)
The ACBD Critics’ Grand Prize aims to “support and highlight, in a spirit of discovery, a comic book, published in French, with strong narrative and graphic demands, marking by its power, its originality, the novelty of his words or the means that the author deploys there. » Bédéphilely yours!
The ACBD office: President: Laurent Gianati | Vice-presidents: Marine Lannot, Loraine Adam | Secretary General: Benoît Cassel | Deputy Secretary: Yaneck Chareyre | Treasurer: Daniel Muraz | Deputy treasurer: Frédéric Michel
