The 31ste France Info Prize for current affairs and reporting comics was awarded on Wednesday January 15 to Rootsof Lou Lubie (Delcourt). The jury of France Info journalists praised a work in a press release “bold, necessary, surprising and funny”. “It’s a very nice recognition”for her part reacted the author on France Info.
Roots is a comic strip signed by Reunion Islander Lou Lubie, aged 35, which paints the portrait of a society which does not question what it means to have textured hair, at a time when Parliament French government is considering a bill aimed at integrating hair discrimination into the list of discriminatory grounds in the Labor Code.
“Small discrimination and inappropriate behavior. »
From hair salons to the nappy – natural + happy – movement, Lou Lubie says everything about the lack of training and the exploitation of specialized hairdressers, the economic weight of the sector and the political issues that an everyday subject that has nothing to do with it harmless, but also, as the author explains, “all the worst that can be found in everyday behavior, small discrimination, inappropriate behavior. »
Since its publication on May 29, 2024, the album has sold more than 18,000 copies according to Gfk.
In 2024, Laurent Hopman et Renaud Roche won the France Info prize for current affairs and reporting comics with Lucas Wars (Time).
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