Quebec cartoonist Julie Doucet is one of three authors in the running for the prestigious Grand Prix of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, which will be held from March 17 to 20.
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For the first time in the history of the French event, i.e. since 1974, three women are competing for the top honours, which come to “promote an artist to the public for all of their work and their imprint on the comic book history. The other two finalists are the French Pénélope Bagieu and Catherine Meurisse.
Montrealer Julie Doucet was first revealed in the world of fanzines, in particular thanks to her bilingual and feminist notebooks Dirty plotte. Spotted by Weirdo in the late 1990s, then by the Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly, the cartoonist acquired international notoriety before turning to graphic arts.
Julie Doucet is eligible for the Grand Prize because a French publisher, L’Association, has published an anthology of her illustrations, Maxiplot, last December. In 2021, the Grand Prize was awarded to American cartoonist Chris Ware, father of the series jimmy corrigan.