Angoulême, the best and biggest comic book festival in the Western world, has unveiled it's official selection for its 41st year, a list of what it considers to be the best comic books published in French, from which the show's final winning awards will be chosen.

Familiar titles for regular Bleeding Cool readers include Paul Pope's Battling Boy, Saga, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother, Tom Gauld's Goliath, Scalped, Fritz The Cat, the work of Jack Kirby, Nancy and, for what I think is the first time for Marvel for non archival work, Hawkeye.

UPDATE: 2005, apparently.

@richjohnston @bleedingcool daredevil by bendis/maleev was a runner-up for best series in 2005. still, rare indeed. http://t.co/0PDt04rOQm — Ralf Haring (@ralfharing) November 27, 2013

Rather forebodingly, its writer Matt Fraction tweeted;

boy that timing couldn't be more ironic. amazing. don't even know how to express what that means to be on that list. merci, merci, merci. — BUTT STUFF WEREWOLF (@mattfraction) November 27, 2013

OFFICIAL SELECTION



Ainsi se tut Zarathoustra by Nicholas Wild

Annie Sullivan & Helen Keller by Joseph Lambert

Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

Carnet du Pérou – Sur la route de Cuzco by Fabcaro

Cesare, Vol 1 by Fuyumi Soryo

Charly 9 by Richard Guérineau, Jean Tuelé

Le chien qui louche by Étienne Davodeau

Come Prima by Alfred

Deadline by Lauren-Frédéric Bollée, Christian Rossi

L'Étranger (D'après l'uvre d'Albert Camus) by Jacques Ferrandez

Fenêtres sur Rue – Matinées / Soirées by Pascal Rabarté

Fuzz and Pluck in Splitsville #2 by Ted Steam

Goggles by Tetsuya Toyoda

Goliath by Tom Gauld

Les guerres silencieuses by Jaime Martin

Hawkeye, Vol 1: My Life as a Weapon by Matt Fraction, David Aja

In God We Trust by Winshluss

Jonathan, Vol 16 – Celle qui fut by Cosey

Kililana Song, Vol 2 by Benjamin Flao

LastMan, Vol 1, Balak by Michaël Sanlaville, Bastien Vivès

The Book of Leviathan by Peter Blegvad

Macanudo 4 by Liniers

Mauvais Genre by Chloé Cruchaudet

My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

Opus, Vol 1 by Satoshi Kon

Paco – Les main rouges, Vol 1 by Éric Sagot, Fabien Vehlmann

Un petit détour et autre racontars, Vol 3 by Gwen de Bonneval, Hervé Tanquerelle

The Property by Rutu Modan

King of the Flies, Vol 3 – Happy Days by Mezzo, Pirus

Saga, Vol 1 by Fiona Staples, Brian K. Vaughan

Les Temps Mauvais – Madrid 1936-1939 by Carlos Gimenez

La tendresse des pierres by Marion Fayolle

Vapor by Max

Les voleurs de Carthage, Vol 1 – Le Serment du Tophet by Appollo, Hervé Tanquerelle

YOUTH

Agito Cosmos Vol 2 by Fabien Mense and Olivier Milhaud

Battling Boy by Paul Pope

Cerise's Tickets by Joris Chamblain and Aurélie Neyret

Detective Rollmops by Renaud Farace and Olivier Philipponneau

Jane, The Fox And Me by Isabelle Arsenault and Fanny Britt

Kairos by Ulysse Malassagne

Klaw Vol 1 by Joël Jurion and Antoine Ozanam

Louca Vol 1 by Bruno Dequier

Milo's World Vol 1 by Christophe Ferreira and Richard Marazano

Space Brothers by Chûya Koyama

Walhalla Vol 1 by Marc Lechuga and Nicolas Pothier

Zita, The Girl From Space Vol 1 by Ben Hatke

ARCHIVAL

Amy And Jordan by Mark Beyer

Cowboy Henk by Kamagurka and Herr Seel

Fritz The Cat by Robert Crumb

Frontline Combat Vol 2 by Collectif and Harvey Kurtzman

Jack Kirby Anthology

Melody by Sylvie Rancourt

Nancy 1943-1945 by Ernie Bushmiller

Pouissons En Eaux Troubles by Susumu Katsumata

Spirou by Yves Chaland

Les Trois Royaumes by Luo Guanzhong

PULP/CRIME

Heartbreak Valley by Simon Roussin

Lartigues et Prévert by Benjamin Adam

Ma Révérence by Wilfrid Lupano and Rodguen

Scalped Vol 8 by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra

Tyler Cross by Brüno, Fabien Nury