The French manga artist Anouk Ricard is one of the best awards for international comics, the winner of the 2025 of the Grand Prix of Angoulêmefestival. The first shortlist, Ricardo, broke the rigorous competition for the honor of Allison Bakdel and Catherine Muris in France.
Ricardo became the fifth winner of the Grand Prix, and she joined a respected company: Rumiko Takahashi, Julie Deu Set, Positive Simmons, Florence Cestac. Other winners include Wil Eyesner, Andreefrankin and Katsuhiro Tomo. The 2025 edition is the second time consisting of a woman or the author of a female or identifier for the second consecutive year.
Since 1974, the Grand Prix, which has been held every year at AngoulêmeInternaTERNATIONATAL COMICS FESTIVAL, is widely considered as one of the best awards for international comics. It is usually awarded to cartoonists and artists (the writer is represented by the Rene Goshinny Award). This is selected by voting for registered experts working in the Franco Velgian industry. The winners will learn a retrospective exhibition customically at the following year’s event.
On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, Anouk Ricard will won the honorary Grand Prix award at the opening ceremony of the 2025 AngoumeInternaTERCOMICS FESTIVAL (Festival de la Bande-Dessinée).
Ank Ricard, a graduate of Strasbourg’s Ecallal Super Ulae de Arts Decoratif, has been active in Franco Belgian comics since the late 1990s, and her first book, Le Avenz de Puffy, cheerful. , Odori, dew. Her latest Ducky Coco was published last year by Edition 2024. It is well known to be known as a child cartoonist. 1983 Series Manimal won the Special JU Award for Angoulême2023. DRAWNN & QUARTERLY will publish a part of her catalog in English in English, including the Anna and FROGA series as a whole between 2012 and 2016, and release a complete collection (completely BUBU) 2017. 。 She also booked a CuckOos release from D & Q to Benson in 2014 to children.
2025 was the second example of three candidate lists, completely women. The last opportunity was in 2023, and I saw a Canadian Julie Du Set, who finally crowned the winner. Other candidates this year include American manga artists and graphic novelists Alison Vecdel (be careful of fun houses and embankments) and French manga artists Catherine Muris (Lightness, great outdoors). Included. BechDel was previously nominated for a prize before (2023), but Meurisse has remained in the final selection every year since 2022.
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