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Thirty names, and the “big” names of world comic Frank Miller, Chris Ware, Alan Moore, Milo Manara, Stan Lee, Emmanuel Guibert, Quino, Jiro Taniguchi, Joann Sfar … Thirty indisputable names, but only men, no woman.
The announcement of the list of eligible authors Grand Prix next Angoulême International Comics Festival (28-31 January) has generated a stir in the middle of the 9 th art, on Tuesday, to the point that a group of authors called for a boycott of the vote, meant to designate the three finalists of the reserved ballot industry professionals to. One of the nominated authors, Riad Sattouf, requested that his name be removed from this list.
“We protest against this obvious discrimination, this total negation of our representation in a medium that has more and more women », protested on his blog the Band creators of Collective drawn against sexism, which brings together some 200 authors, calling not to vote.
Twice winner of the gold for best album Beast (in 2010 for Volume 3 Pascal Brutal and in 2015 the first volume of the Arabic Future ) Riad Sattouf, he spoke on his Facebook account:
“There are unfortunately few women in the history of <- - atom snippet!> comic. It is a reality “
One Woman, the French-Iranian Marjane Satrapi, was included in the list of 26 names communicated upstream of the festival of Angoulême last year. Both were part – Marjane Satrapi already, and Columbia Posy Simmonds – during the 2014 edition, which then corresponded to the new designation of the Grand Prize: a vote from a predetermined selection, not a system of cooptation by previous winners. Since this change of formula, the list of “nominees” is established by the artistic direction of the festival.
O by the World on Tuesday night, its Chief Executive Officer, Franck Bondoux, s is forbidden to gender bias:
“The concept of the grand prize is to spend an author for all his work. When you look palmares, we see that the artists that make up the show some maturity and of a certain age. Unfortunately, there are few women in the history of comics. It’s a reality. If you go to the Louvre, you will also find quite a few female artists. “
42 Festival, one woman managed to embed itself in the ranking of major awards: Florence Cestac, designated by his peers in 2005. Claire Bretécher, which was long the only one in France to carry the torch of female comics, had she received an award from the “tenth anniversary” in 1983 – the Grand Prix was that year awarded to Jean-Claude Forest
. Women are still a minority in the profession today. According to the latest report of the Association and journalists critical of the cartoon (KDD), which lists each year the production of comics in the Francophone world, creative professionals represent 12.4%.
The argument advanced by the festival “is misleading, it is the serpent biting its tail , Joanna denounces Schiffer, one of the linchpins of the Collective creative cartoon against sexism. Women are present for a long time in comics. The problem is that they never get to the finish, we do not put on them. The comic is no exception to the inter se that reigns in the arts and culture, where men elect them. “
“You have to force things, as in politics or in environments dominated by men. If there is no representation, there is no example. And without a model, it is impossible to project for a young author “, believes his side Catel Muller, Catel said, biographies of specialist lawyers from the feminist cause (Edith Piaf, Kiki de Montparnasse, Olympus Gouges …) and winner last year, the “Grand Prize Angoumixte” an unofficial distinction given on the sidelines of the Angoulême festival.
This sexism suspicion falls even more harm than the The past year has seen “the release excellent albums signed by women” , as recalled Chantal Montellier, the president of the Artemisisa association, which promotes female BD through an annual award. Include the Piano oriental (Casterman) Zeina Abirached and California Dreamin ‘ (Gallimard) Penelope Bagieu the Monde.fr was pre-published this summer, but Glen Gould, a setback for life (Dargaud) Sandrine Revel or Fatherland (Right here) Nina Bunjevac.
- The shortlist for the grand prize of Angouleme : Brian M. Bendis (USA), Christian Binet (France), Christophe Blain (France), François Bourgeon (France), Charles Burns (USA), Pierre Christin (France), Daniel Clowes (USA), Richard Corben (USA), Cosey (Switzerland), Etienne Davodeau (France), Nicolas de Crécy (France), Edika (France), Carlos Gimenez (Spain), Emmanuel Guibert (France), Hermann (Belgium), Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile), Stan Lee (USA), Milo Manara (Italy), Taiyô Matsumoto (Japan), Lorenzo Mattotti (Italy), Frank Miller (USA) Alan Moore (Great Britain), Quino (Argentina), Riad Sattouf (France), Joann Sfar (France), Bill Sienkiewicz (USA), Jiro Taniguchi, Naoki Urasawa, Jean Van Hamme (Belgium), Chris Ware (United STATES).
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