The 42nd Angouleme International Comics Festival is coming up Jan. 29, and over the Thanksgiving holiday organizers announced the nominations for the four juried prizes: the Sélection Officielle (the general category), Sélection Jeunesse (young people), Sélection Patrimoine (classics and reprints) and Sélection Polar (mysteries and thrillers).

Angouleme lives up to the "international" part of its name, as many of the selections were first published in English, including Chris Ware's Building Stories, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga, and Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's This One Summer.

See the full list below.



La Sélection Officielle

• L'Arabe du Futur, Vol. 1, by Riad Sattouf

Autel California, Vol. 1: Treat Me Nice, by Nine Antico

Barthélemy, L’Enfant sans ge by Simon Roussin

Beta… civilisations, Vol. 1, by Jens Harder

Blast, vol. 4: Pourvu que les Bouddhistes se Trompent, by Manu Larcenet

Building Stories, by Chris Ware

Calavera [Sugar Skull], by Charles Burns

Cet Été-là [This One Summer], by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

Le Chef de Nobunaga, Vol. 4, by Takurô Kajikawa and Mitsuru Nishimura

• L'enfer en bouteille, by Suehiro Maruo

Hommes à la mer, by Riff Reb's

Julio [Julio's Day], by Gilbert Hernandez

K.O à Tel-Aviv, Vol. 2, by Asaf Hanuka

Lastman, Vol. 6, by Balak, Mickaël Sanlaville and Bastien Vivès

Little Tulip, by François Boucq and Jérôme Charyn

Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha et Oméga, by Gabriel Rodriguez and Joe Hill

Love in Vain, by Mezzo and Jean-Michel Dupont

• Lune l'envers, by Blutch

Magasin Général, Vol. 9: Notre-Dame-des-Lacs, by Régis Loisel and Jean-Louis Tripp

Max Winson, Vol. 1: La tyrannie, by Jérémie Moreau

Mes cent démons ! [One Hundred Demons], by Lynda Barry

Moderne Olympia, by Catherine Meurisse

Un océan d'amour, by Grégory Panaccione and Wilfrid Lupano

L'or et le sang, Vol. 4: Khalil, by Merwan, Fabien Bedouel, Maurin Defrance and Fabien Nury

Panthère, by Brecht Evens

• Que la bête fleurisse, by Donatien Mary

Saga, Vol. 3, by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan

Sukkwan Island, by Ugo Bienvenu

Sunny, Vol. 1, by Taiyô Matsumoto

Ulysse, les chants du retour, by Jean Harambat

Vermines, Vol. 1: Le retour de Pénélope, by Guillaume Guerse and Marc Pichelin

Les vieux fourneaux, Vol. 1: Ceux qui restent, by Paul Cauuet and Wilfrid Lupano

• Voir des baleines, by Javier de Isusi

• Vous êtes tous jaloux de mon jetpack [You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack], by Tom Gauld

Yekini, le roi des arènes, by Lisa Lugrin and Clément Xavier



La Sélection Jeunesse

Au pays des lignes, by Victor Hussenot

Boule à zéro, Vol. 3: Docteur Zita, by Ernst and Zidrou

Légendes de la garde, Vol. 3: La hache noire [Legends of the Guard, Vol. 3: The Black Axe], by David Petersen

Passe-passe, by Dawid and Delphine Cuveele

Quatre sœurs, Vol. 2: Hortense, by Cati Baur and Malika Ferdjoukh

Les royaumes du Nord Vol. 1, by Clément Oubrerie and Stéphane Melchior

Caterina, Volume One: Le gang des chevelus, by Alessandro Tota

Emile et Margot, Volume Four: Merci les montres!, by Olivier Deloy, Anne Didier and Olivier Muller

Hilda et le chien noir [Hilda and the Midnight Giant], by Luke Pearson

Karton, Volume One: Taméus Trognebarde, by Uwe Heidschötter and Patrick Wirbeleit

Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 5, by Nabaka Suzuki

Le temps des mitaines, by Anne Montel and Loïc Clément



La Sélection Patrimoine

Pogo, Vol. 1, by Walt Kelly

San Mao, le petit vagabond, by Zhang Leping

Sandman, Vol. 4, by Neil Gaiman and others

Sex & Fury, by Bonten Tarô

Gilles la jungle, by Claude Cloutier

Green Lantern & Green Arrow, by Neal Adams and Dennis O'Neil

Histoire de la Sainte-Russie, by Gustave Doré

La malédiction de Rascar Capac, Vol. 1, by Hergé and Philippe Goddin

Capitaine Albator Intégrale, by Leiji Matsumoto

Daredevil par Frank Miller, by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson



La Sélection Polar

Fatale, by Max Cabanes and Doug Headline

Gotham Central, Vol. 1, by Michael Lark, Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka

Moi, assassin, by Keko and Antonio Altarriba

Petites coupures à Shioguni, by Florent Chavouet

Wet Moon, Vol. 1, by Atsushi Kaneko