Daniel Clowes has the honors of Angoulême. This American won the Fauve d’or for best album of the year on Saturday with Monicaannounced the jury of the Comics Festival.
Graphic novel published in October by Delcourt, Monica is the story of the life of an ordinary American woman, through a multitude of very diverse stories. This book, highly appreciated by critics, among others, earned Daniel Clowes, 62 years old, enough votes from his peer authors to reach the final of the Grand Prix de la Ville d’Angoulême this year. But he was beaten by the winner Posy Simmonds, crowned Wednesday evening.
A trip compromised by Covid-19
The winner of this Fauve d’or, who lives in Oakland, California, was unable to make the trip to Angoulême. “Daniel Clowes wanted to come. He came from San Francisco, he arrived in Paris. But the Covid stopped it in Paris,” explained its publisher Guy Delcourt, who received the trophy on the stage of the Théâtre d’Angoulême. Posy Simmonds had also been prevented from coming from London three days earlier by a toothache.
American comics, or comics, are seeking greater recognition within the Angoulême Festival which is the bastion of traditional Franco-Belgian comics, then which has largely opened up to Japanese manga.
The publisher François Hercouët, from Urban Comics, took advantage of his appearance on the stage of the Théâtre d’Angoulême, on the occasion of another prize, to plead in favor of the appointment of a third artistic director of the Festival, comic specialist.
The Angoulême Festival closes its doors on Sunday evening, at the end of an edition which once again attracted a very large audience.