“Au-dedans”, by Will McPhail, winner of the Fnac France Inter 2025 BD Prize

“Au-dedans” is the first graphic novel by the American press cartoonist. He questions his relationship with others.

The comic strip Inside is the winner of the 2025 BD Fnac France Inter Prize. The winning album was revealed on Wednesday January 8 in the morning of France Inter by Rebecca Manzoni, the godmother of the BD Fnac France Inter Prize. Published by 404 Editions, Inside is the first graphic novel by newspaper cartoonist Will McPhail New Yorker.

This comic is “an invigorating and moving story centered on the person of Nick, a withdrawn young man who will slowly awaken to the world”writes the editor. “A young city dweller, Nick is an illustrator whose life oscillates between his personal projects and a food job within an advertising agency. He poses in cafes and craft beer bars, aware that something is missing in his life. This something is others and their intimate worlds. The young man questions his relationship with others.. Illustrated in black and white and in color, Inside East “poignant as well as fresh and hilarious”, underlines its publishing house.

Insideby Will McPhail, was one of the five comics competing for the Fnac France Inter 2025 BD Prize. The four other finalist comics were: Ulysses and Cyrano by Stéphane Servain, Xavier Dorison and Antoine Cristau (Casterman), Impenetrable d’Alix Garin (Lombard), The road by Manu Larcenet after Cormac McCarthy (Dargaud), et Bobigny 1972 by Marie Bardiaux-Vaïente and Carole Maurel (Glénat).

These five finalists were selected by the 35 members of the general public jury, among the 20 favorites for 2024 from Fnac booksellers and the France Inter editorial staff. It was a final commission, chaired by Rebecca Manzoni, sponsor of the Prize, and made up of journalists and booksellers from Fnac, which selected the winner.

Insideby Will McPhail, succeeds Lucas Wars by Renaud Roche and Laurent Hopman, published by Editions Deman, winner last year. The BD Fnac Prize was created in 2013, before becoming the BD Fnac France Inter Prize in 2019.