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{{Short description|Franco-Belgian lifetime achievement award for comic artists}}
[[File:FIBD2016OtomoHermann.jpg|thumb|right|The previous year's recipient [[Katsuhiro Otomo]] (left), presenting [[Hermann Huppen]] with the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême in 2016.]]
The '''Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême''' is a [[lifetime achievement award]] given annually during the [[Angoulême International Comics Festival]] to a [[comics]] author. Although not a monetary award, it is considered the most prestigious award in [[Franco-Belgian comics]].

It has been awarded mainly to French and Belgian authors, but also to international authors. Recipients are, on average, 50 years old. Four women, [[Florence Cestac]], [[Rumiko Takahashi]], [[Julie Doucet]], and [[Posy Simmonds]] have been awarded the prize.<ref>{{cite news|title=French comics festival marred by sexism row - BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35240858|access-date=6 January 2016|work=BBC News|date=6 January 2016|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=La Japonaise Rumiko Takahashi sacrée Grand Prix du Festival de la BD d'Angoulême|url=https://m.20minutes.fr/amp/a/2434327|access-date=23 January 2019|work=20 minutes|date=23 January 2019|language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Julie Doucet Grand Prix d'Angoulême 2022 : une récompense pas si (...) |url=https://www.actuabd.com/Julie-Doucet-Grand-Prix-d-Angouleme-2022-une-recompense-pas-si-paradoxale |access-date=2022-03-22 |website=ActuaBD |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

==History==
The prize was first awarded during the first Angoulême festival in 1974. Traditionally, the winner has been selected as the president of the board and the prize jury of next year's festival. Since 1982, the winners have also drawn the next year's festival poster. In 1984, cartoonist [[Claire Bretécher]] received a special tenth anniversary award apart from the main prize, a practice since repeated on subsequent anniversaries.

After 1989, the prize was awarded by a jury of all previous winners, except for the time from 1997 to 1999 when all creators attending the festival voted on the winner. The jury system was criticized for favoring cronyism and Franco-centrism, and was abandoned after 2012. Subsequent years have seen a variety of changing award mechanisms. In 2015, the winner was again selected by vote of all registered comics creators, based on a list of nominees.

In January 2016, 12 of the 30 nominees for the 2016 prize withdrew their names from consideration in protest against a shortlist of exclusively male nominees.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Alverson|first1=Brigid|title=10 creators withdraw names from Angouleme Grand Prix|url=http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2016/01/nine-creators-withdraw-names-from-angouleme-grand-prix-list/|access-date=6 January 2016|work=[[Comic Book Resources]]|date=6 January 2016|language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=Vulture-BoycottNoWomen-2016>{{cite news|last1=Riesman|first1=Abraham|title=Comics Stars Boycott International Prize Because No Women Were Nominated|url=http://www.vulture.com/2016/01/comics-boycott-angouleme.html|access-date=6 January 2016|work=[[Vulture (blog)|Vulture]]|date=6 January 2016}}</ref>  Following media reports, the festival's board first announced 6 additional female nominees,
<ref>{{cite news | last=Phalippou | first=Alexandre | title=Qui sont les nominéEs au grand prix du Festival BD d'Angoulême?| url=https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2016/01/07/grand-prix-festival-bd-angouleme-2016-linda-barry-julie-doucet-moto-hagio-chantal-montellier-marjane-satrapi-posy-simmonds_n_8927232.html | date=7 January 2016 | work=[[HuffPost]] | language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Potet|first1=Frédéric|title=Le festival de BD d'Angoulême va intégrer des auteures parmi les nommés au Grand Prix|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/bande-dessinee/article/2016/01/06/le-festival-d-angouleme-amende-sa-liste-de-nomines-au-grand-prix-pour-y-inclure-des-femmes_4842680_4420272.html|access-date=6 January 2016|work=[[Le Monde]]|date=6 January 2016|language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>[http://www.bdangouleme.com/933,le-festival-d-angouleme-aime-les-femmes-mais-ne-peut-pas-refaire-l-histoire-de-la-bande-dessinee Le festival d'Angoûleme aime les femmes mais ne peut pas refaire l'histoire de la bande dessinée] - Official statement, 6 January 2016.</ref> then retracted all nominees, allowing registered professionals to vote for any person.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Le Saux|first1=Laurence|title=Festival d'Angoulême : plus de liste de nommés, mais un vote libre pour le Grand Prix|url=http://www.telerama.fr/livre/festival-d-angouleme-plus-de-liste-de-nommes-mais-un-vote-libre-pour-le-grand-prix,136554.php|access-date=7 January 2016|work=[[Télérama]]|date=7 January 2016|language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Randanne|first1=Fabien|title=Festival d'Angoulême: Il n'y aura finalement ni nommés, ni nommées pour le Grand prix|url=http://www.20minutes.fr/culture/1761555-20160107-festival-angouleme-finalement-ni-nommes-ni-nommees-grand-prix|access-date=7 January 2016|work=[[20 minutes (France)|20 minutes]]|date=7 January 2016|language=fr-FR}}</ref>

==Winners==
===1970s===
*1974 [[André Franquin]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Vessels|first=Joel E.|title=Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic|year=2010|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-444-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gut56lkOOfgC&q=%22grand+prix%22+%22angoul%C3%AAme%22&pg=PA214|access-date=31 January 2011|page=208}}</ref> (''[[Gaston (comics)|Gaston]]'', ''[[Marsupilami]]'', ''[[Spirou et Fantasio]]'')
*1975 [[Will Eisner]]<ref name=Passion>{{cite book|last=Pascal|first=Pierre|title=BD passion|year=1993|publisher=Les Dossiers d'Aquitaine|isbn=978-2-905212-15-3|pages=142|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg4UubzpWkYC&q=%22grand+prix%22&pg=PA66}}</ref> (''[[A Contract with God]]'', ''[[The Dreamer (comics)|The Dreamer]]'', ''[[To the Heart of the Storm]]'')
*1976 [[René Pellos]] (René Pellarin)<ref name=Passion/> (sports cartoonist)
*1977 [[Jijé]] (Joseph Gillain)<ref name=Schuiten/> (''Spirou et Fantasio'', ''[[Jerry Spring]]'', ''[[Tanguy et Laverdure]]'')
*1978 [[Jean-Marc Reiser]]<ref name=Passion/> (cartoonist)
*1979 [[Marijac]] (Jacques Dumas)<ref name=Passion/> (youth comics)

===1980s===

*1980 [[Fred (comics)|Fred]] (Othon Aristides)<ref name=Passion/>
*1981 [[Jean Giraud|Moebius / Jean Giraud]]<ref name=Passion/>
*1982 [[Paul Gillon]]<ref name=Passion/>
*1983 [[Jean-Claude Forest]]<ref name=Passion/>
**<u>10th anniversary</u> [[Claire Bretécher]]<ref name=Femmes>{{cite book|last=Brogniez|first=L.|title=Femmes et critique(s): Lettres, Arts, Cinéma|year=2009|publisher=Presses universitaires de Namur|isbn=978-2-87037-622-5|pages=190|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MDPow3FqGCMC&q=%22grand+prix%22+%22angoul%C3%AAme%22&pg=PA124|access-date=31 January 2011}}</ref>
*1984 [[Jean-Claude Mézières]] (''[[Valérian and Laureline]])''<ref name=Passion/>
*1985 [[Jacques Tardi]]<ref name=Passion/>
*1986 [[Jacques Lob]]<ref name=Passion/>
*1987 [[Enki Bilal]]<ref name=Passion/>
*1988 [[Philippe Druillet]]<ref name=Passion/>
**<u>15th anniversary</u> [[Hugo Pratt]]
*1989 [[René Pétillon]]

===1990s===

*1990 {{ill|Max Cabanes|fr}}
*1991 [[Gotlib]] (Marcel Gotlieb)
*1992 [[Frank Margerin]]
**<u>20th anniversary</u> [[Morris (comics)|Morris]] (Maurice de Bevere)
*1993 [[Gérard Lauzier]]
*1994 [[Nikita Mandryka]]
*1995 [[Philippe Vuillemin]]
*1996 [[André Juillard]]
*1997 [[Daniel Goossens]]
*1998 [[François Boucq]]
*1999 [[Robert Crumb]]
**<u>Special prize of the millennium</u> [[Albert Uderzo]]

===2000s===

*2000 [[Florence Cestac]]<ref name=Femmes/>
*2001 [[Martin Veyron]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Adda|first=Bérengère|title=Angoulême sacre Martin Veyron|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/loisirs-et-spectacles/angouleme-sacre-martin-veyron-28-01-2001-2001919645.php|access-date=31 January 2011|newspaper=Le Parisien|date=28 January 2001}}</ref>
*2002 [[François Schuiten]]<ref name=Schuiten>{{cite news|last=Dary|first=Thibaut|title=A quoi sert vraiment Angoulême ?|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/lefigaromagazine/2009/01/31/01006-20090131ARTFIG00172--a-quoi-sert-vraiment-angouleme-.php|access-date=31 January 2011|newspaper=Le Figaro|date=30 January 2009}}</ref>
*2003 [[Régis Loisel]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Régis Loisel, grand prix 2003|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/loisirs-et-spectacles/regis-loisel-grand-prix-2003-26-01-2003-2003763589.php|access-date=31 January 2011|newspaper=le Parisien|date=26 January 2003}}</ref>
*2004 [[Zep (cartoonist)|Zep]] (Philippe Chappuis)<ref name=Zep>{{cite news|last=Vavasseur|first=Pierre|title=Wolinski succède à Zep|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/loisirs-et-spectacles/wolinski-succede-a-zep-30-01-2005-2005660487.php|access-date=31 January 2011|newspaper=Le Parisien|date=30 January 2005}}</ref>
**<u>30th anniversary</u> [[Joann Sfar]]
*2005 [[Georges Wolinski]]<ref name=Zep/>
*2006 [[Lewis Trondheim]]<ref>{{cite news|title=* Bande dessinée - Lewis Trondheim obtient le Grand Prix à Angoulême|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/livres/100882/bande-dessinee-lewis-trondheim-obtient-le-grand-prix-a-angouleme|access-date=31 January 2011|newspaper=Le Devoir|date=30 January 2006}}</ref>
*2007 [[José Antonio Muñoz]]<ref>{{cite news|title=José Munoz remporte le Grand Prix d'Angoulême 2007|url=http://lci.tf1.fr/culture/livres/2007-01/jose-munoz-remporte-grand-prix-angouleme-2007-4874010.html|access-date=31 January 2011|newspaper=TF1|date=28 January 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124000726/http://lci.tf1.fr/culture/livres/2007-01/jose-munoz-remporte-grand-prix-angouleme-2007-4874010.html|archive-date=24 January 2011}}</ref>
*2008 [[Dupuy and Berberian]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Dupuy et Berbérian se partagent le grand prix de la Ville d'Angoulême|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2008/01/28/03005-20080128ARTFIG00361-dupuy-et-berberian-se-partagent-le-grand-prix-de-la-ville-d-angouleme.php|access-date=31 January 2011|newspaper=Le Figaro|date=28 January 2008}}</ref>
*2009 [[Blutch]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Angoulême décerne son Grand Prix à Blutch|url=http://www.france-info.com/culture-livres-2009-02-01-angouleme-decerne-son-grand-prix-a-blutch-246565-36-39.html|access-date=31 January 2011|newspaper=France Info|date=1 February 2009}}</ref>

===2010s===
*2010: [[Baru (comics)|Baru]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Morel|first=Mathieu|title=Le Grand Prix pour Baru|url=http://lorraine.france3.fr/info/Le-Grand-Prix-pour-Baru-60726717.html|access-date=31 January 2011|newspaper=France 3|date=1 February 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720215701/http://lorraine.france3.fr/info/Le-Grand-Prix-pour-Baru-60726717.html|archive-date=20 July 2011}}</ref>
*2011: [[Art Spiegelman]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Chaplain-Riou|first=Myriam|title=US comic artist Spiegelman wins French prize|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g7QuUtofsxln_BaQzJbbjmR5yypQ?docId=CNG.7bdc5ae33cb6afa079d4a84588e766f7.4d1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124185440/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g7QuUtofsxln_BaQzJbbjmR5yypQ?docId=CNG.7bdc5ae33cb6afa079d4a84588e766f7.4d1|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 24, 2013|access-date=31 January 2011|date=30 January 2011|agency=AFP}}</ref>
*2012: {{ill|Jean-Claude Denis|fr}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bodoi.info/news/2012-01-29/jean-claude-denis-grand-prix-dangouleme-2012/55736 |title=Jean-Claude Denis, Grand Prix d'Angoulême 2012 &#124; BoDoï, explorateur de bandes dessinées - Infos BD, comics, mangas |access-date=2012-09-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201081034/http://www.bodoi.info/news/2012-01-29/jean-claude-denis-grand-prix-dangouleme-2012/55736 |archive-date=2012-02-01 }}</ref>
*2013: [[Bernard Willem Holtrop]] (Willem)<ref name="willem">{{cite news|last=Potet|first=Frédéric|title=Le Néerlandais Willem couronné par le Grand Prix d'Angoulême|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2013/02/03/le-neerlandais-willem-couronne-par-le-grand-prix-d-angouleme_1826467_3260.html|newspaper=Le Monde|date=3 February 2013}}</ref>
**<u>40th anniversary</u> [[Akira Toriyama]]<ref name="willem" />
*2014: [[Bill Watterson]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2014/02/02/angouleme-le-grand-prix-attribue-a-bill-watterson-le-pere-de-calvin-et-hobbes_4358548_3246.html|title=Culture - Actualités, vidéos et infos en direct|website=[[Le Monde]] }}</ref>
*2015: [[Katsuhiro Otomo]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comicsalliance.com/katsuhiro-otomo-grand-prix-award-angouleme/ |title='Akira' Creator Katsuhiro Otomo Wins Angoulême Grand Prix |access-date=2015-01-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131055542/http://comicsalliance.com/katsuhiro-otomo-grand-prix-award-angouleme/ |archive-date=2015-01-31 }}</ref>
*2016: [[Hermann Huppen]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nummer9.dk/blog/nyheder/angouleme-2016-hermann-vinder-prisen-ingen-vil-have/|title = Angoulême 2016: Hermann vinder prisen ingen vil have|date = 28 January 2016}}</ref>
*2017: {{ill|Cosey (artist)|lt=Cosey|de|Cosey|es|Cosey|fr|Cosey}} (Bernard Cosendai)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.telerama.fr/livre/festival-d-angouleme-2017-cosey-decroche-le-grand-prix,153244.php|title = Festival d'Angoulême 2017 : Cosey décroche le Grand Prix| date=25 January 2017 }}</ref>
*2018: [[Richard Corben]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/pop-culture/bandes-dessinees/richard-corben-la-belle-surprise-du-grand-prix-d-angouleme-2018--24-01-2018-2189403_2922.php|title = Richard Corben, la belle surprise du Grand Prix d'Angoulême 2018|date = 24 January 2018}}</ref>
*2019: [[Rumiko Takahashi]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comicsbeat.com/rumiko-takahashi-wins-the-grand-prix-at-angouleme/|title = Syndicated Comics|date = 23 January 2019}}</ref>

===2020s===
*2020: [[Emmanuel Guibert]]<ref name="LeMonde29012020">[https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2020/01/29/bande-dessinee-emmanuel-guibert-grand-prix-2020-d-angouleme_6027704_3246.html « Bande dessinée : Emmanuel Guibert, Grand prix 2020 d’Angoulême »], ''Le Monde'', 29 janvier 2019.</ref>
*2021: [[Chris Ware]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Potet|first=Frédéric|date=2021-06-23|title=Festival de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême : Chris Ware, un Grand Prix très proustien|work=[[Le Monde]]|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2021/06/23/bd-chris-ware-un-grand-prix-d-angouleme-tres-proustien_6085325_3246.html}}</ref>
*2022: [[Julie Doucet]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Potet |first=Frédéric |date=2022-03-16 |title=Julie Doucet, un Grand Prix d'Angoulême « féministe jusqu'au bout des ongles » et underground |work=[[Le Monde]] |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2022/03/16/julie-doucet-un-grand-prix-d-angouleme-feministe-jusqu-au-bout-des-ongles-et-underground_6117814_3246.html |access-date=2022-03-16}}</ref>
*2023: [[Riad Sattouf]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Riad Sattouf remporte le Grand Prix 2023 d’Angoulême |url=https://www.beauxarts.com/grand-format/riad-sattouf-remporte-le-grand-prix-2023-dangouleme/ |access-date=2023-01-27 |website=Beaux Arts |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
*2024: [[Posy Simmonds]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2024-01-24 |title=Posy Simmonds wins Grand Prix at Angoulême Comics Festival |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/books/article/2024/01/24/posy-simmonds-wins-grand-prix-at-angouleme-comics-festival_6462295_33.html |access-date=2024-01-24 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web|language=fr|website=Encyclopédie Larousse|title=Festival d'Angoulême|url=https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/divers/festival_d_Angoul%c3%aame/165645}}

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