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The Official Selection List was published last year, but today all the main awards were presented, aside from the Grand Prix which will be awarded in the summer. Middlewest and Dragman Win Big Angouleme Comics Prizes And for work originally published in English, my own favourite Steven Appleby's Dragman won the Special Jury Prize, and Skottie Young[...]

We'll be cheering for Stephen Appleby's Dragman. Other translated-from-English titles of note include The Invisible Kingdom by G Willow Wilson and Christian Ward, Mauretania by Chris Reynolds, the Complete Parker by the late Darwyn Cooke, Middlewest by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona and Rusty Brown by Chris Ware. SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE – Aldobrando – Gipi & Critone (Casterman) – Anaïs Nin sur la[...]

But in doing so, with a 336 page graphic novel, Dragman, launching today from Jonathan Cape, he has created something personal indeed. Appleby is a transvestite, something he is open about now, but was kept as a secret for decades after he realised as a teenager And so Dragman is a power fantasy, as all the[...]