The selection for the ACBD Critics’ Grand Prize 2025:
Inside by Will McPhail, translated by Basile Beguerie (404 Éditions)
Tonight is a nightmare by Nicole Claveloux (Cornelius)
Two naked girls by 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 by Zoe Thorogood, translated by Maxime Le Dain (Hi Comics)
The Julys by Nylso (Same)
Oh, Lenny by Aurélien Maury (Tanibis)
The Jellyfish King T1 by Brecht Evens, translated by Wladimir Anselme (Actes Sud)
The Road by Manu Larcenet (Dargaud)
New blood by Jean-Christophe Chauzy (Casterman)
Shubeik Lubeik, your desires are orders by Deena Mohamed, translated by Victor Salama (Steinkis)
Ulysse & Cyrano by Antoine Cristau, Xavier Dorison and Stéphane Servain (Casterman)
What they areby Sole Otero, translated by Anne Plantagenet (À et Là)
A second selection, of only 5 albums, will be revealed on Saturday November 23, 2024, during the bdBOUM Festival in Blois.
This award 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 subject or the means that the author deploys », According to the association.
READ – Will McPhail ACBD Critics’ Comics Prize 2024
Last year, the Grand Prix de la Critique ACBD welcomedThe sky in the headby Antonio Altarriba, Sergio Garcia Sanchez and Lola Moral, published by Denoël Graphic in a translation by Alexandra Carrasco.
Find the list of French and French-speaking literary prizes
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