Manu Larcenet received on Saturday April 22 the first Gotlib prize for comics, created as part of the Paris Book Festival and which rewards impertinence, announced its organizers.
Larcenet, 53, was crowned for the third and final volume in his series “group therapy”, “The sadness will always last” (Dargaud). This series full of self-mockery features a comic book author in search of inspiration.
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The Gotlib prize for humorous comics was created by Marcel Gotlib’s daughter, Ariane Gotlieb. She chaired the jury made up of musicians Eddy Mitchell, Richard Gotainer and Thomas Dutronc, actors and directors Alain Chabat, Antoine de Caunes and Albert Dupontel, writer Clara Dupont-Monod and comic book authors Zep and Catherine Meurisse.
Heavyweight of French comics
Manu Larcenet’s comic strip was preferred to seven other albums, including “A General, Generals” by François Boucq and Nicolas Juncker or “The Gate of the Universe” the Daniel Goossens.
Larcenet became a heavyweight in French comics in the 2000s thanks to works like “Return to Earth”, “The Ordinary Fight” (awarded at the Angoulême comic book festival in 2004) or « Blast ». Previously, at the end of the 90s, he worked at the magazine Fluide glacial, co-founded by Gotlib.
The latter, also co-founder of the magazine L’Écho des savanes, died in 2016, at the age of 82. Alone or in collaboration, we owe him emblematic works of French comics, including the humorous series “The Dingossiers” et “Rubric-a-brac” or the adventures of Superdupont.
Born Marcel Gottlieb in 1934 in Paris, he had become Gotlieb in the civil status (patronym transmitted to his children) and had the pen name Gotlib, without the « e ».
