BD: next Grand Prix d’Angoulême will be a woman

Bagieu Penelope, Julie Doucet and Catherine Meurisse arrived at the top of the first ballot organized by the Festival d’Angoulême, from March 17th to 20th.

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The next Grand Prix of the International Cartoon Festival (FIBD) of Angoulême will be a woman. The demonstration, of which the 49 e will take place from 17 to 20 March, has designated three female finalists for the award of this prestige award, awarded to an author or an autor for the whole of his work. The French Penelope Bagieu and Catherine Meurisse and Canadian Julie Doucet arrived at the top of an online consultation organized by the FIBD with the professionals of the sector whose albums are written or translated into French and disseminated in the Francophone space. The second ballot will take place between March 2 and March 8.

The laureate will succeed the American Chris Ware, designated in 2021, and thus become the third woman to access the winners of the Grand Prix, after Florence Cestac in 2000 and the Japanese Rumiko Takahashi in 2019. In 1982, Claire Bretecher had Got a great price of the “tenth anniversary”. Never, since the Grand Prizes are elected by a college of voters from the profession (2017), three women had occupied the places of finalists.

A strong controversy had inflamed the main European fair dedicated to 9 e art in 2016 after the announcement of a pre-lip of 30 exclusively male names for the election of the Grand Prix, selection composed by The artistic direction of the festival. The FIBD had then completed an integral redesign of the designation system to promote greater diversity in the profile of the applicant (e) s.

Born in 1982, Penhelope Bagieu first made known by his business blogger, before publishing several albums noticed, whose great success, the panties, a series of portraits of women having braved the social pressure of their respective times. Born in 1980, Catherine Meurisse began his career as a press designer, which she abandoned after the attack against Charlie Hebdo to devote himself exclusively to the comic book, which she defends since 2020 in the academy the fine Arts. Less known and older, Julie Doucet (born in 1965) is a figurehead of the North American BD Underground, including the work castigates Puritanism with great reinforcement of autobiographical anecdotes.

The laureate will be known on March 16, on the eve of the opening of the Angoulême Festival.

/Media reports.