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Akira's Katsuhiro Otomo Nominated Again for Angoulême's Top Prize
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
The 9emeArt.fr website and the French edition of The Huffington Post reported that the 42nd annual Angoulême International Comics Festival nominated nomination in as many years. He ultimately lost the prize last year to Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. Alan Moore was also nominated last year.
The festival's comic Wet Moon for best Crime Comic.
The festival launches on January 29, just weeks after 17 people, including five Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, were killed in terrorist attacks in . More than three million people filled the streets of this past weekend to march in unity against the attacks.
The festival launched in 1974 as an event celebrating comics from countries throughout the world. None of the manga nominees for 2014 received a prize. Manga creator won the Prix Intergénérations (Intergenerational Award) and Prix Regards sur le monde (World Outlook Award), respectively, in 2012.
Sources: 9art.fr, The Huffington Post via Robot6
