Les Essentiels d'Angoulême ("The Essentials of Angoulême") is a comics award chosen by the jury of the Angoulême International Comics Festival since 2007, selecting five albums from a longlist of some fifty. Subsidiary awards chosen by the same jury are the Essentiel Révélation (best first album, successor of the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book) and Essentiel Patrimoine (successor of the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance).
Since 2008, the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize Awarded by the Audience has also been renamed Essentiel FNAC-SNCF, and the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prix Jeunesse 9-12 ans has become the Essentiel Jeunesse.
Winners Year Title Author(s) Publisher2007Black HoleCharles BurnsDelcourt2007LupusFrederik PeetersAtrabile2007Pourquoi j’ai tué PierreOlivier Ka (writer) and Alfred (artist)Delcourt2007LucilleLudovic DebeurmeFuturopolis2007Le PhotographeEmmanuel Guibert with assistance from Frédéric Lemercier based on the story and with the photographs of Didier LefèvreDupuis2008Exit WoundsRutu ModanActes Sud BD2008Ma maman est en Amérique, elle a rencontré Buffalo BillJean Regnaud (writer) and Émile Bravo (artist)Gallimard2008La Marie en PlastiquePascal Rabaté (writer) and David Prudhomme (artist)Futuropolis2008Trois OmbresCyril PedrosaDelcourt2008R.G.Frederik Peeters, based on the story by Pierre DragonGallimard2009Lulu femme nue, first bookÉtienne DavodeauFuturopolis2009Martha Jane Cannary, part 1 : Les Années 1852-1869Christian Perrissin (writer) and Matthieu Blanchin (artist)Futuropolis2009Le Petit Christian, part 2BlutchL'Association2009Une Aventure de Spirou et Fantasio par ..., t. 4 : Le Journal d'un ingénuÉmile BravoDupuis2009Tamara DrewePosy SimmondsDenoël Graphic
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