A few kilometers from the Pink City, the Colomiers BD Festival celebrates comic strips every year, bringing together authors, authors, editors and publishers to bring the 9th art to life. For this new edition, the event will take place from Friday November 15 to Sunday November 17, 2024, and will take place in various locations which will come alive with colorful activities.
Two years ago, the festival launched its own literary prize, intended to reward an author whose first work of comic literature was published during the year. During its first edition, the prize was awarded to Martin Panchaud for The Color of Things (ed. here & there), which then received the Fauve d’Or at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2023, author Lika Nüssli was awarded the prize for A childhood of straw (ed. Atrabile).
For this 3rd edition, a reading committee made up of six professionals – booksellers, members of the organizing team, illustrator, etc. – was tasked with deciding between the ten works in the running. The prize was finally awarded to Camille Potte for Balladspublished by Atrabile editions, which also won the sum of €1,500.
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With a style steeped in the 70s and underground culture, Camille Potte addresses themes such as feminism, democracy and other contemporary issues.
Prince Gourinot de Faouët is very unhappy, and for good reason, he is transformed into a frog. Nothing had prepared him for this state, nor for the plot hatched behind his back, with the aim of deposing him. A lord who falls is a bit of democracy taking hold… although…
Meanwhile, the valiant Gounelle, knight by profession, goes to free the alabaster-skinned Princess Patine and confront the dragon who guards her, but for both of them, the road back will be very long, winding, strewn with pitfalls, but also with discoveries.
If we add a hallucinated salamander, a cantankerous witch, an insufferable minstrel and music-loving frogs, we begin to have an idea of the pure madness that is Balladsundoubtedly one of the funniest and endearing books of the year.
– Summary of Balladsby Camille Potte
Find the list of French and French-speaking literary prizes
By Louella Boulland
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