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Angoulême's Full Official Selection Lists For 2014

Published Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:14:42 -0600

Last updated Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:05:34 -0600

Angoulême, the best and biggest comic book festival in the Western world, has unveiled it's official selection for its 41st year, a list of what it considers to be the best comic books published in French, from which the show's final winning awards will be chosen.

Familiar titles for regular Bleeding Cool readers include Paul Pope's Battling Boy, Saga, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother, Tom Gauld's Goliath, Scalped, Fritz The Cat, the work of Jack Kirby, Nancy and, for what I think is the first time for Marvel for non archival work, Hawkeye.

UPDATE: 2005, apparently.

@richjohnston @bleedingcool daredevil by bendis/maleev was a runner-up for best series in 2005. still, rare indeed. http://t.co/0PDt04rOQm

— Ralf Haring (@ralfharing) November 27, 2013

Rather forebodingly, its writer Matt Fraction tweeted;

boy that timing couldn't be more ironic. amazing. don't even know how to express what that means to be on that list. merci, merci, merci.

— BUTT STUFF WEREWOLF (@mattfraction) November 27, 2013

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Ainsi se tut Zarathoustra by Nicholas Wild
Annie Sullivan & Helen Keller by Joseph Lambert
Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Carnet du Pérou – Sur la route de Cuzco by Fabcaro
Cesare, Vol 1 by Fuyumi Soryo
Charly 9 by Richard Guérineau, Jean Tuelé
Le chien qui louche by Étienne Davodeau
Come Prima by Alfred
Deadline by Lauren-Frédéric Bollée, Christian Rossi
L'Étranger (D'après l'uvre d'Albert Camus) by Jacques Ferrandez
Fenêtres sur Rue – Matinées / Soirées by Pascal Rabarté
Fuzz and Pluck in Splitsville #2 by Ted Steam
Goggles by Tetsuya Toyoda
Goliath by Tom Gauld
Les guerres silencieuses by Jaime Martin
Hawkeye, Vol 1: My Life as a Weapon by Matt Fraction, David Aja
In God We Trust by Winshluss
Jonathan, Vol 16 – Celle qui fut by Cosey
Kililana Song, Vol 2 by Benjamin Flao
LastMan, Vol 1, Balak by Michaël Sanlaville, Bastien Vivès
The Book of Leviathan by Peter Blegvad
Macanudo 4 by Liniers
Mauvais Genre by Chloé Cruchaudet
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
Opus, Vol 1 by Satoshi Kon
Paco – Les main rouges, Vol 1 by Éric Sagot, Fabien Vehlmann
Un petit détour et autre racontars, Vol 3 by Gwen de Bonneval, Hervé Tanquerelle
The Property by Rutu Modan
King of the Flies, Vol 3 – Happy Days by Mezzo, Pirus
Saga, Vol 1 by Fiona Staples, Brian K. Vaughan
Les Temps Mauvais – Madrid 1936-1939 by Carlos Gimenez
La tendresse des pierres by Marion Fayolle
Vapor by Max
Les voleurs de Carthage, Vol 1 – Le Serment du Tophet by Appollo, Hervé Tanquerelle