The cartoonist and author Manu Larcenet received on Saturday April 21 the first Gotlib prize for comics, created as part of the Paris Book Festival and which rewards impertinence, announced its organizers.
Aged 53, Larcenet was crowned for the third and final volume of his “Group Therapy” series, “Sadness will always last” (Dargaud). A series full of self-mockery that features a comic book author in search of inspiration.
The Gotlib prize for humorous comics was created by Marcel Gotlib’s daughter, Ariane Gotlieb. She chaired the jury made up of musicians Eddy Mitchell, Richard Gotainer and Thomas Dutronc, actors and directors Alain Chabat, Antoine de Caunes and Albert Dupontel, writer Clara Dupont-Monod and comic book authors Zep and Catherine Meurisse.
Gotlieb’s Legacy
Manu Larcenet’s comic book was preferred to seven other albums, including “A general, generals” by François Boucq and Nicolas Juncker or “The door of the Universe” by Daniel Goossens.
Larcenet became a heavyweight in French comics in the 2000s thanks to works such as “Le retour à la terre”, “Le combat ordinary” (awarded at the Angoulême comics festival in 2004) or “Blast”.
Previously, at the end of the 1990s, he worked at the magazine Fluide glacial, co-founded by Gotlib. The latter, also co-founder of the magazine L’Écho des savanes, died in 2016, at the age of 82. Alone or in collaboration, we owe him emblematic works of French comics, including the humorous series “Les dingodossiers” and “Rubrique-à-brac” or the adventures of Superdupont.
Born Marcel Gottlieb in 1934 in Paris, he had become Gotlieb in the civil status (patronym transmitted to his children) and had the pen name Gotlib, without the “e”.
