Chris Ware, American cartoonist, won the 2021 Angoulême City Grand Prix on Wednesday. This award was awarded despite the cancellation of the public events of the famous International Comic Strip Festival. The author of Jimmy corrigan and Rusty Brown, 53 years old, sees crowned the whole of a career where he affirmed an immediately recognizable style in the “comic strip”.
The name of the winner, who succeeds Frenchman Emmanuel Guibert, was announced by a simple press release, without the award ceremony.
A minimalist and precise design
Relatively little known to the general public in France, Chris Ware is the author of a very rich work, not entirely translated. He is known to comics fans for his attention to the tiniest detail of ordinary lives.
It is harnessed by a minimalist and precise design, with soft angles and solid colors, where the characters take reassuring round shapes.