Cartoonist Zviane won the ACBD Critics’ Prize for Quebec Comics for her graphic album Football-Fantasyannounced its publisher Pow Pow on Thursday.
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This important prize in the world of comics aims to “support and highlight, in a spirit of discovery, a comic book, published in French, with strong narrative and graphic requirements, striking by its power, its originality, the novelty of its purpose or of the means that the author deploys therein”.
Zviane, Sylvie-Anne Ménard of her real name, has been present in the comics industry for a good fifteen years. She got noticed with her series The cat host (Delcourt), led with her colleague Iris, but also by her albums Apnea Where The second (Pow Pow), among others.
Football-Fantasy, released in 2021, tells the story of the escape of two young girls (until then held captive by a mad scientist), who end up in an imaginary city called Football-Fantasy, where they do not understand the language of its inhabitants.