The 2024 Töpffer comics prizes were awarded last night during a ceremony at the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design (HEAD). The Grand Prix was won by the French designer Winshluss. The prize for young comic strip goes to Fanny Rose. Geneva-based author Juliette Mancini won the Töpffer Geneva prize.
Comic book author, graphic designer, co-founder of the committed magazine “Bien, monsieur”, Juliette Mancini was distinguished for her album Hatred of hairco-produced with psychologists Sara Piazza and Alexia Chandon-Piazza. The comic explores “a complicated relationship with female body hair. He tries to understand where the disgust that we can feel comes from,” in connection with psychological research by one of the co-authors, she explains.
This is the third comic strip by Juliette Mancini who has already signed Awakenings (2021) et Of Chivalry (2016). His vein? Social themes, feminism or even the relationship to social pressures. Juliette Mancini is committed and makes it felt through a trait described by the newspaper The World as “childish, behind which hides a fierce humor”, even piquant.
Next project for the designer, a work entitled Become a Cliff, addressing the theme of mourning. A delicate exercise. “Humor will not be the primary aspect of the book, but some characters will be a little grating,” she confides. It will explore what can be comical at times in experiences of mourning, or what can bring joy, “while criticizing certain pressures which today want us to move on very quickly to something else”. Release hoped for by 2026!
The hatred of hair (2024), ed. Cambourakis
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