Episode 88: Grand Prix Noms 2022
With the big show in Angouleme happening in just a couple of weeks, we now have our three final nominees for the Grand Prix of the show. This is the person who will serve as the president of next year’s show.
The big headline this year is that they’re all women, neatly staving off many of the usual battles related to these kinds of nominations while lighting the usual fires you’d suspect from a different contingent of fans.
There’s always someone who will be ticked off…
Two of the nominees, Penelope Bagieu and Catherine Meurisse, were in this position last year. Julie Doucet joins them to round out the nominations.
I’m still rooting for Bagieu, who I’ve reviewed twice: “Blank Slate” and “Josephine” v1.
I recently reviewed Catherine Meurisse’s “The Great Outdoors“.
We’ll see what happens soon.
The comments section on the website where I read this news first is ablaze with — well, all the comments you’d expect from both sides. It’s the internet and we must skirmish!
Learning French: I’m using DuoLingo for learning French. Today is day 789. Elle mange une orange.
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To be totally honest with you, the microcosmic Grand Prix nominations are far from Oscar/Emmy/Grammy level, even here. The main headline so far that made some waves this year is the ‘Women only’ suspicion or wokism, which would be right up the alley of the powers-that-be in charge of those things, who for many years have been driven by ‘progressive’ political statements rather than audience recognition or peer approval. You know the drill. For more examples of that unreliability, you do mention the Chris Ware nonsense, the recent award to Richard Corben is an obvious WTF case of better awfully late than never, so were a few before him.
The nominees themselves, though undeniably talented, made no significant headlines and there is a clear disconnect between what sells (see the Top 10 well documented on BDzoom) and what ‘enlightened’ critics would like to put the spotlight on. There sometimes would be a blip through mainstream media, barely occuring whenever a whiff of controversy rears its ugly head, promising some tremors in the ratings for media outlets on a slow news days. Sadly there hasn’t been a slow news day in quite a while…
“The nominees themselves, though undeniably talented, made no significant headlines…” Bagieu made tons of headlines for BRAZEN, had her book turned into an animated TV series, sold tens of thousands of copies, and won a Will Eisner Award. I should know, because I translated it and I too have the award sitting on a shelf 🙂
I meant in mainstream media. Ask anyone on the street who she is, 99% of people have no idea