the BD High School Students Prize in Bastia and the Taste of Science Prize

Three comic books are in the running for the Prix des Lycéens BD in Bastia and 28 books are to be discovered in the adult and youth categories for the Le Goût des sciences literary prize.

For its 31st edition, from Thursday April 4 to Sunday April 7, BD in Bastia proposes to “Looking at the world upside down!” During these comics and illustration meetings, the BD High School Prize will be awarded in Bastia. Three comic books are selected and exhibited for this prize, whose authors meet young high school students in advance to talk to them about their works.

The selection of the BD High School Students Prize in Bastia

Pre-match, of Noémie Chust, a comic book published by Fidèle

The story, accompanied by energetic and colorful stencil drawings, all in shades of mauve and orange, takes place the day before the fencing match that awaits Corky. At the same time as doubt arrives, the fear of not being in good shape, the fear of losing, the young woman opens up to her friend Violette. One is a fighter, the other is all about sensitivity. The pre-match also symbolizes the narrow border between late adolescence and adulthood, and also between friendship and love.

Robbie, Olivier Bruneauaux and Emilie Gleasoneditions, Virages Graphiques editions

Olivier Bruneau, for whom this is his first comic book script, and Emilie Gleason, Revelation Prize at the 2019 Angoulême festival for Ted, funny coconut faceare also selected with Robbie.

Apart from a little fluorescent on the cover, color, you won’t find any in this comic book which tells the story of an undead! Robbie, 12 years old, wakes up one morning in his own grave, he has become a Zombie! With the help of Carrie, a young, slightly fanciful artist of his age, he will try to understand the reasons for her death. “If life is not fair, neither is death.”That’s what Robbie discovers the meaning of his death while searching. A very “crazy” and very endearing comic strip!

The big incident, by Zelba, a co-edition of Editions du Louvre and Futuropolis

The author, of German origin and who studied at the Beaux-arts de St Etienne, explains in the afterword: initially, this comic strip was commissioned by the Louvre. Zelba quickly notices that in more than two centuries of history of the Louvre, no woman, before Laurence des Cars since 2021, had been in charge, just as there are almost no female artists on display. .

Added to this the imbalance in the number of naked women visible, compared to the male sculptures in the different rooms of the museum, it was enough to imagine this burlesque story, this “fantasticomic” tale, as she calls it – even. And it’s true that we laugh a lot, following this rebellion of the statues of the Louvre, who are fed up with having often been mistreated throughout art and the centuries.

The selection of the Taste of Science Prize

The “Le Goût des sciences” Prize, launched by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, is a literary prize which aims to select and reward the best works of scientific mediation. For this 15th edition, 28 books were selected for the two categories, the winners of which will be known next June.

Selection Prize for Taste of Science

Genes, synapses, autism – Thomas BOURGERON – Odile Jacob
The conquest of the horse: a genetic history – Ludovic ORLANDO – Odile Jacob
The beautiful story of Kakapo – Etienne DANCHIN – Humensciences
The truant cells – Lise BARNÉOUD – First Parallel
The power of plants – Valentin HAMMOUDI – Humensciences
The largest menu in the world – Bill FRANÇOIS – Fayard- Franceinfo column to be found here.
Genetics at the heart – Philippe AMOUYEL & Héloïse CHOCHOIS – Dargaud
Marie Curie at the beach – Marco ZITO – Dunod
The great mysteries of nature – Chloé NABÉDIAN – Ed. du Rocher
Journey to the heart of our cells – Ferdinand JAGOT – First Ed.
Space Reavers – Raphaël CHEVRIER – Buchet-Chastel
Please draw me a sperm whale – Pome BERNOS & François SARANO – Actes Sud
The ghosts of the night – Laurent TILLON – Actes Sud
When the mountains dance – Olivier REMAUD – Actes Sud
Abyss, the final frontier – Olivier LASCAR – Alisio Sciences

Selection Prize for Taste of Youth Science

Carnivorous plants hit the mark – Katia ASTAFIEFF – Lucca éditions
A year with Sapiens – Nicolas TEYSSANDIER – The city is burning
Vegetal – Hélène DRUVERT and Juliette EINHORN – La Martinière jeunesse
A short enchantment manual for beginner wizards – Jean ESPERANCE – De Boeck Superieur
The big book of extreme animals – Sophie BLITMAN, Juliette RAVAUX and Claire MARTHA – La Martinière jeunesse
Another story of space conquest – Emmanuelle BRILLET – The green momentum
Alive ! – Guillaume DUPRAT – Saltimbanque éditions
Plants are not stupid! – Philippe NESSMANN and Jean MALLARD – Sarbacane
The great factory of everything that stings – Nadja BELHADJ and Philippe de KEMMETER – Saltimbanque éditions
Mushrooms – Pauline PAYEN and Zelda PRESSIGOUT – Panthera
The incredible adventure of numbers – Carina LOUART and Joanna RZEZAK – Actes sud jeunesse
Do ants know how to swim? – Claude LEBAS and Samuel LOUART – Delachaux and Niestle youth
Extremely simple! – The easiest book to learn everything about volcanoes in the world – Frédérique LECLERC and Julien FLAMAND – Hachette children

Happy reading and have a good week everyone!