ACBD Critics’ Grand Prize 2025 – Onirik

The 15 finalists of the GP ACBD 2025 are, in alphabetical order:

• Insideby Will McPhail (404 editions)
• Tonight is a nightmareby Nicole Claveloux (Cornelius)
• Two naked girlsby Luz (Albin Michel)
• Idealby Baptiste Chaubard and Thomas Hayman (Sarbacane)
• The Illuminatedby Laurent-Frédéric Bollée and Jean Dytar (Delcourt)
• Impenetrableby Alix Garin (Le Lombard)
• It’s lonely at the centre of the Earthde Zoe Thorogood (Hi Comics)
• The Julysby Nylso (Same)
• Oh, Lennyby Aurélien Maury (Tanibis)
• The Jellyfish King T1by Brecht Evens (Actes Sud)
• The Roadby Manu Larcenet (Dargaud)
• New bloodby Jean-Christophe Chauzy (Casterman)
• Shubeik Lubeik, your desires are orders de Deena Mohamed (Steinkis)
• Ulysse & Cyranoby Antoine Cristau, Xavier Dorison and Stéphane Servain (Casterman)
• what they are by Sun Otero (Here & There)

In Blois, during a debate during the 41st bd BOUM festival (November 22-24, 2024), members will reduce this list to 5 titles. Then a final round of voting by all members will determine the title which will receive, at the end of January 2025, the Grand Prix de la Critique ACBD 2025.

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 its purpose or the means that the author deploys. »