Time has done his work. The young marginal authors of a few decades ago, the “indie” comic strip, as they say in the middle of the 9th art, now sits at the top of the poster. This is how we must consider the Golden Fauve attributed last night to the album Monica of the American Daniel Clowes.

For a little over 30 years, Clowes has been tracing a singular vein, where self -fiction has been able to probe the neuroses of America. Monicawhich he brought for a half-dozen years, paints the portrait of a woman who is found as a child and that we will leave the bleached hair. Meanwhile, she will have sought the immature mother who abandoned her, crossed some very lively monsters and others fantasized, and finally, perhaps, managed to find herself. In a story with abused construction, Daniel Clowes does not hesitate to lose his readers. It’s up to them to make the way in the middle of these pop colors, to reconstruct the puzzle of a life.

Monicaat Delcourt editions, golden fawn of this 51^e Edition of the Angoulême Festival.

From the dozen prizes awarded last night in Angoulême, we can remember the youth fawn which rewards the South Korean Yoon-Sun Park for The incredible Mademoiselle Bang at Dupuis editions. A sign that Asian productions always appeal to young readers.

The Fauve Polar has not escaped Contrition -Perhaps the most freezing book of 2023-Spaniards Keko and Carlos Portela, at Denoël Graphic.

The series of the series returns to the intriguing The Nice House of the Lakeat Urban Comics. There, we have both a Spanish drawing, Alvaro Martinez Bueno, and an American in the script, James Tynion IV.

Finally, the eco-fauve rewards which is undoubtedly the best science fiction bd of the year: Frontier From the French Guillaume Singelin, under the label 619, by rue de Sèvres editions.

The prize list of Angoulême 2024 :

FAUVE OF HONOR | Hagio motorcycle

Konishi Prize: Odilon Grevet for translation of Bokko / Stratege T.1 (Original Histoire de Kenichi Sakemi; Scénario de Sentaro Kubota; Dessin de Hideki Mori), éd. Vega Dupuis

Prix ​​René Goscinny – Best screenwriter: Julie Birmant for Dalì – 1 – Avant Gala, Drawing by Clément Oubrerie, ed. Dargaud

Prix ​​René Goscinny – Young screenwriter: Simon Boileau for Laughs it, Drawing by Florent Pierre, ed.dargaud

Youth Fauve: The incredible Mademoiselle Bang! of The PARK PARK , d.D.

SPECIAL FAUVE OF THE GRAND YOUTH JURY – Ex æquo: Afternoon yawning – volume 1 by Shin’Ya Komatsu, translation of Aurélien ESTAGER, ed. Imho and The small queens, by Magali Le Huche, from the novel by Clémentine Beauvais, ed. Sarbacane

Fauve Polar SNCF Travelers: Contrition, of Keko (designer) and Carlos Portela (screenwriter), translation of Alexandra Carrasco, at Denoël Graphic

Alternative comic strip: Aline, from I am Aline (Hollande)

Eco-Fauve Raja: Frontier, of William SINGELIN, Label 619 / Street of Sèvres

FAUVE Patrimoine: Four Japanese in San Francisco (1904-1924), The Henn Yoshistaka, the Compirer denuct Mussun Mumuko, ad. OnaptutuT / le

FAUVE – Public Prize France Télévisions: Evils to say, de Beatriz Lema, translation of Jean-Marc Frémont, ed. Sarbacane

Holiday of high school students: The pavil face, by Jérémy Perrodeau, ed. 2024

FAUVE Revelation: The embarrassed manfrom Matthieu Chiara, ed. The citrus

FAUVE OF THE SERIES: The nice house on the lake T.2, of Álvaro Martínez Bueno (designer) and James Tynion IV (screenwriter), translation of Maxime Le Dain, Urban Comics

Special jury fawn: Hanbok T.1, by Sophie Darcq, ed. Apocalypse

Golden Fauve – Best album: Monicaby Daniel Clowes, translation of Jacques Binsztok, ed. Delcourt