The Festival de la bande dessinée francophone de Québec (FBDFQ) is taking place right now and runs through Sunday in Quebec City. Tons of cartoonists, events, and exhibits surround the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and other swank venues. You could do worse than spending a few minutes browsing their website http://fbdfq.com/ and looking at all the pretty pictures, including the poster designed by Julie Rocheleau.
The festival is also the occasion for a group of Quebec-centred comics awards, the Prix Bédéis Causa, which will be handed out at a ceremony on Friday. Here are the nominees for the prizes:
Prix Bédéis Causa Nominees
Prix Réal-Fillion: “best début”
Olivier Carpentier and Gautier Langevin, Far Out t. 1 (Lounak)
Guillaume Perreault, for Cumulus (Mécanique générale)
Blonk, for 23 h 72 (Pow Pow)
Grand prix de la ville de Québec: “best French-language comic published in Quebec”
J’aime les filles (Oie de Cravan), by Obom
Promise t. 2 : L’Homme souffrance (Glénat Québec), by Mikaël
Le bestiaire des fruits (La Pastèque), by Zviane
La grande noirceur (Mécanique générale), by Philippe Girard
La guerre des arts (Pow Pow), by Francis Desharnais
Prix Albéric-Bourgeois: “best French-language comic by a Quebec creator published abroad”
La colère de Fantômas t. 2 : Tout l’or de Paris (Dargaud), by Julie Rocheleau
Broadway – Une rue en Amérique t. 1 (Soleil), by Djief
Magasin général t. 9 (Casterman), by Régis Loisel and Jean-Louis Tripp
Prix Maurice-Petitdidier: “best French-language book by a non-Quebecer”
L’Arabe du futur (Allary), by Riad Sattouf
Les vieux fourneaux t. 1 – Ceux qui restent (Dargaud), by Wilfrid Lupano and Paul Cauuet
Blast t. 4 (Dargaud), by Manu Larcenet
Prix traduction: “best translated work”
Moi, assassin (Denoël), by Antonio Altarriba and Keko
L’Abominable Charles Christopher (Lounak), by Karl Kerschl
Vous êtes tous jaloux de mon jetpack (Alto), by Tom Gauld
Prix Albert-Chartier: “award for lifetime dedication to comics”
(announced at ceremony)