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Both Thor and X-Men Placed On Angouleme Official Selection List For 2020

Published Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:30:58 -0600

The Angouleme Festival for 2020 has announced their Official Selection of comic books published in the French language over the last year. These will be voted on for the Grand Priz, as well as individual categories, to be presented at Angouleme in the New Year. This is the most prestigious comic book award in the world. And Marvel have a record number of placements this year. Two.

Entries originally published in the English language, published in the US and the UK include Clyde Fans by Seth, Daedelus by Charles Burns, Berlin by Jason Lutes, Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen, Thor by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman, and X-Men Grand Design by Ed Piskor in the Official Selection, Posy Simmonds' Cassandra Darke in the Crime/Pulp list, Grass Kings by Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins, and Stray Bullets by David Lapham in the Heritage section.

Here are the full lists of titles, lead creators and publishers.

Official Selection

Acte de Dieu by Giacomo Nanni (Ici Même)
Algues vertes by Inès Léraud and Pierre van Hove (Delcourt)
L'Amour dominical by Dominique Goblet and Dominique Théate (FRMK)
Le Bateau de Thésée 4 by Toshiya Higashimoto (Vega)
Berlin, livre troisième : ville de lumière by Jason Lutes (Delcourt)
Blueberry T. 1 : Amertume apacheby Christophe Blain and Joann Sfar (Dargaud)
Le Château des animaux T. 1 : Miss Bengalore by Xavier Dorison and Félix Delep (Casterman)
Les Contes de la Pieuvre T. 2 : Un destin trouveur by Gess (Delcourt)
Clyde Fans by Seth (Delcourt)
Dans l'abîme du temps by Gou Tanabe and H.P. Lovecraft (Ki-Oon)
Dédales by Charles Burns (Cornélius)
Demain, demain Gennevilliers, cité de transit. 1973 by Laurent Maffre (Actes Sud)
Le Dernier Atlas T. 1, by Gwen de Bonneval, Fabien Vehlmann, Fred Blanchard and Hervé Tanquerelle (Dupuis)
Descender T. 6 : La fin d'un monde by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen (Urban Comics)
Dora T. 4 by Minaverry (L'Agrume)
Dracula de Georges Bess (Glénat)
Ecolila de François Olislaeger (Actes Sud BD)
Les Entrailles de New York by Julia Wertz (L'Agrume)
L'Été dernier by Paolo Cattaneo (Misma)
Guerre by Marion Jdanoff (Super Loto Éditions)
Il était 2 fois Arthur by Grégoire Carlé and Nine Antico (Dupuis)
Les Indes fourbes by Alain Ayroles and Juanjo Guarnido (Delcourt)
In Waves by Aj Dungo (Casterman)
Je suis au pays avec ma mère by Isabelle Pralong and Irene de Santa Ana (Atrabile)
Le Loup de Jean-Marc Rochette (Casterman)
Lucarne by Joe Kessler (L'Association)
Luminary T. 1 by Luc Brunschwig and Stéphane Perger (Glénat)
Un Matin avec Mlle Latarte by Caroline Sury (Le Monte-en-l'air)
Michel, fils des âges farouches by Pierre Maurel (L'employé du Moi)
Des Milliards de miroirs by Robin Cousin (FLBLB)
Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lapinot – Tome 2 : Les Herbes folles by Lewis Trondheim (L'Association)
L'Oisiveraie de David Prudhomme (L'Association)
Papa Maman Fiston by Lucas Méthé (Actes Sud)
Préférence système by Ugo Bienvenu (Denoël Graphic)
Révolution T. 1 by Florent Grouazel and Younn Locard (Actes Sud / L'an 2)
Roi des bourdons by David de Thuin (Glénat)
Saison des roses by Chloé Wary (FLBLB)
The Mighty Thor T.3 : La Mort de la puissante Thor by Jason Aaron and Russel Dauterman (Panini Comics)
La Tournée by Andy Watson (Éditions çà et là)
La Traversée by Clément Paurd (2024)
Tulipe et les sorciers by Sophie Guerrive (2024)
X-Men Grand Design T. 2, by Ed Piskor (Panini Comics)

Les trois affiches du FIBD 2020, par Rumiko Takahashi, Catherine Meurisse and Charles Burns

Crime/Pulp:

Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds (Denoël Graphic)
Dans la tête de Sherlock Holmes T. 1 : L'Affaire du ticket scandaleux by Cyril Liéron and Benoît Dahan (Ankama)
Le Détection Club by Jean Harambat (Dargaud)
Grass King by Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins (Futuropolis)
No Direction by Emmanuel Moynot (Sarbacanne)
Tumulte by John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy (Presque Lune)

Heritage:

Alerte Rouge by Tomaz Lavric (Çà et là)
Deux manches et la belle by Milo Gross (La Table Ronde)
Les Fleurs rouges by Yoshiharu Tsuge (Cornélius)
La Main verte et autres histoires by Nicole Claveloux and Édith Zha (Cornélius)
Monde Mutant by Richard Corben and Jan Strnad (Delirium)
Stray Bullets by David Lapham (Delcourt)
Walt & Skeezix by Frank King (2024)

Kids:

Le Club des chats casse la baraque by Yoon-Sun Park (Misma)
Lettres d'amour de 0 à 10 by Thomas Baas and Susie Morgenstern (Rue de Sèvres)
La Ligue des super féministes by Mirion Malle (La ville brûle)
My Hero Academia T. 20 by Kohei Horikoshi (Ki-Oon)
Pipistrelli by Charlotte Pollet (Biscoto)
Radiant T. 12 by Tony Valente (Ankama)
Raowl, Livre premier : la belle et l'affreux by Tebo (Dupuis)
Les Vermeilles by Camille Jourdy (Actes Sud BD)

Young Adults:

Beastars T. 6 by Paru Itagaki (Ki-Oon)
Dans un rayon de soleil by Tillie Walden (Gallimard Jeunesse)
Le Fils de l'Ursari| by Cyrille Pomès (Rue de Sèvres)
Haïkus de Sibérie by Jurga Vilé and Lina Itagaki (Sarbacane)
Mécanique céleste de Merwan (Dargaud)
Les Sales Gosses by Peggy Adam (Atrabile)
Spirou, L'Espoir malgré tout T. 2 : un peu plus loin vers l'horreur, d'Émile Bravo (Dupuis)
Le Tigre des neiges T. 4 by Akiko Higashimura (Le Lézard Noir)