Eid, Paiement, Delisle, and Vachon-Boucher Net Quebec City Comics Prizes

by BK Munn
The winners of the 2017 Bédéis Causa Awards were announced at a 30th anniversary ceremony this past weekend during the Festival de la bande dessinée francophone in Quebec City. The awards recognize French-language comics work published in Canada during the past year. This year’s winners include Jean-Paul Eid and Claude Paiement, Guy Delisle, and newcomer Mélodie Vachon-Boucher.
The winners were chosen by a jury comprised of Marco Duchesne (Librairie Pantoute), Jérôme Vermette (Librairie Laliberté) and Marie -Hélène Vaugeois (Librairie Vaugeois), columnists Raymond Poirier (CKRL) and Pierre Blais (CKRL / Le Clap), as well as Marik Trépanier (Bibliothèque de Québec).
The full list of nominees is below, with the winners highlighted with an asterix.

Grand prix de la ville de Québec
(Best French-language book published in Quebec by a Canadian creator)

Les premiers aviateurs, by Alexandre Fontaine-Rousseau et Francis Desharnais (Pow Pow)
Le retour de l’iroquois, by Louis Rémillard (TRIP)
**La femme aux cartes postales, by Jean-Paul Eid and Claude Paiement (La Pastèque)**
Nunavik, by Michel Hellman (Pow Pow)
Louis parmi les spectres, by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arseneault (La Pastèque)

Prix Réal-Fillion
(Best first book by a Canadian)

Bellebrute,  Ramures (Bayard)
**Mélodie Vachon-Boucher, Les trois carrés de chocolat (Mécanique générale)**
Esbé,  Le Bouddha brisé, chapitre 1 (BerBer 13-13)

Prix Albéric-Bourgeois
(Best book by a Canadian published abroad)

**S’enfuir, by Guy Delisle (Dargaud)**
Les 9 derniers mois de ta vie de petit con, by Cookie Kalkair (Les Arènes)
Café Zombo (Mickey Mouse vu par…), by Régis Loisel (Glénat)

Prix Maurice-Petitdidier
(Special international jury prize for a book by a foreign creator)

Les brumes de Sapa, by Lolita Séchan (Delcourt)
***L’Été Diabolik, by Thierry Smolderen and Alexandre Clérisse (Dargaud)***
L’Homme qui tua Lucky Luke, by Mathieu Bonhomme (Dargaud)

Prix traduction
(Special jury prize for translated work)

***La loterie, by Shirley Jackson and Miles Hyman (Casterman)***
Police lunaire, by Tom Gauld (Alto)
Démon, tome 1, by Jason Shiga (Cambourakis)

Prix Albert-Chartier  (Lifetime achievement award for an organization or individual involved in the world of Quebec bande dessinée)

Yvette Lapointe (1912-1994), one of the first women cartoonists to work in Canada and the creator of the long-running strips “Pourquoi ?” and “Petits Espiègles” published in La Patrie and L’Illustration beginning in the 1930s.

Prix Jacques-Hurtubise ($1000 self-publication grant)

Stéphane Johnson for his upcoming book, La clique vidéo
(you can see a picture of Stéphane holding his giant cheque and talking about the work on his blog here)
full report in french with photos from actuabd