C’is the award that kicks off the comics awards season, and we are very proud, Pointthat it bears the name of Georges Wolinski, who was its historic president since its creation in 2004. His daughter Natacha now represents him on the jury which only includes very big names from the 9e art, of all generations: two Angoulême Grands Prix, with Philippe Druillet and Charles Berberian, as well as Catherine Meurisse (who should soon become one), Coco, Jul, Ugo Bienvenu and Bastien Vivès. Without forgetting our shock Tintinophile, Albert Algoud.
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At the end of its first deliberations, the jury selected six finalists, among whom is the future winner, who will be announced on Wednesday December 4. These titles reflect the abundant diversity of the contemporary landscape of French comics, and could almost constitute, as noted Charles Berberian, winner of the prize last year, a nice table of contents Charlie Monthlythe legendary magazine of which Georges Wolinski was editor-in-chief between 1970 and 1981. Your predictions!
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Claire Braud, La Chiâle
“Weird, gooey, nourishing. » This is how Jul described this strange and fascinating object. Claire Braud explores, through her double Carilé, the depression she went through in a story of unbridled graphic fantasy, where we literally go from cock to donkey. That is to say, from a state internal security fair to Japanese cats, including a trip to Sri Lanka, following in the footsteps of a state massacre committed on an idyllic beach. As Marie Darrieussecq, who signs the preface, says, “it doesn’t look like anything and that’s what’s good.”
La Chiâle, by Claire Braud (Dupuis), 216 pages, 29.95 euros.
Lucas and Arthur Harari Le Cas David Zimmerman
It was a meeting that made fans fantasize about two artistic brothers who were as virtuoso as they were atypical. That of Lucas, a gifted and cerebral designer, and Arthur, a celebrated and multi-awarded filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. “In this masterful drawer construction”, dixit the great connoisseur that is Charles Berberian, David Zimmerman wakes up in the skin of the young woman with whom he spent the night while his own body has disappeared, inhabited by this mysterious lover of one evening. At least he thinks so.
This is the beginning of a dizzying and disturbing investigation, where Lucas Harari's geometric virtuoso drawing, bathed in blue tints and patterns, rises to the height of great American masters like Charles Burns or Dan Clowes.
Le Cas David Zimmerman, by Lucas and Arthur Harari (Sarbacane), 360 pages, 35 euros.
Luz, Two naked girls
Luz, the troublemaker, the relentless satirist, the icebreaker of masculinism, signs one of the most unexpected albums of the year. The naked girls in question compose a painting, the work of the German expressionist painter Otto Mueller whose wanderings we follow from the first brushstroke given in 1919 by Otto, a mad lover of gypsy culture, until his arrival at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne , where it is still visible today. In the meantime, the painting will go through several decades of sound and fury, which Luz's round and generous drawing translates… from the point of view of the work itself.
Because it is through the eyes of the painting that we first follow the bohemian life of the flayed alive Mueller, then the profile of his various owners, including… the Nazi regime itself, which made one of him symbols of his famous exhibition on art generated in 1937 in Munich, alongside Picasso, Chagall and Otto Dix. Two naked girls is a lucid and joyful invitation to resistance, in times where renunciation is all too common.
Two naked girls, de Luz (Albin Michel), 192 pages, 24.90 euros.
Stephen Vuillemin, Extraterrestrial Foods
“I think we have the Xavier Bouysson from the 2024 vintage! » exclaimed Bastien Vivès in front of these Extraterrestrial Foodsin reference to the UFO of the 2023 selection which made its way among the finalists for the Wolinski Prize. It must be said that Stephen Vuillemin's work left no one indifferent within the jury. His boards, with their graphic inventiveness as varied as they are limitless, are full of monstrous or ectoplasmic creatures, which eye the unbridled surrealism of the infernal trio Panique Topor-Arrabal-Jodorowsky.
Special mention to the terrible recipes proposed by Vuillemin, including this “edible chain mail quail made from pig anus” that a mother tastes without batting an eyelid to show her bohemian daughter that she too has “refined tastes”. Enjoy your food !
Extraterrestrial Foods, by Stephen Vuillemin (Denoël Graphic), 144 pages, 26 euros.
Dominique Bertail, JD Morvan and Madeleine Riffaud, Madeleine, resistant 3. Tomato noodles
Madeleine Riffaud has just passed away at the age of 100, after having gone through the thousand turbulences of a century that did not spare her. In this third volume of the series which traces her commitment to the resistance, Madeleine was arrested after having shot down a German officer in cold blood. Handed over to the Special Brigades, the Vichy police, it can implement the recommendations given in the event of arrest and torture. Always deny, again, until you convince yourself that you know nothing. And recite poetry to each other, the last anchor to humanity and the beauty of the world.
The pages, trying, at the limit of the bearable, are nevertheless admirably accurate in their refusal of any complacency. And Madeleine's fury for life, stronger than anything, will lead her to the liberation of Paris. And other adventures just waiting to be told.
Madeleine, resistant 3. Tomato noodles, by Dominique Bertail, JD Morvan and Madeleine Riffaud (Dupuis), 128 pages, 23.50 euros.
Nicolas Barral, The Restless Monsieur Pessoa
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Fernando Pessoa is very ill. On the verge of death, he remembers some of the most significant moments of his existence, sorts through his manuscripts, argues with his multiple avatars or heteronyms, to the point of shooting some of them! The Portuguese writer counted up to 70 doubles behind whom he hid, giving them an existence in their own right. A young aspiring writer is tasked with writing his obituary and sets out in the footsteps of this enigmatic being who invariably refused loves and honors. Without imagining that this burlesque spinning will be part of his own training novel.
Nicolas Barral takes this monument of world literature and treats it with infinite delicacy and poetry, but without ever falling into hagiography.
The Restless Monsieur Pessoa, by Nicolas Barral (Dargaud), 136 pages, 25 euros.
