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What would have been the Official Selection List for the Cancelled Angoulême Comic Art Festival 2026
Article Summary
Discover the full Angoulême 2026 Official Selection comics list, even after the festival’s cancellation
Highlights include French translations of major works by Tom Gauld, Paul B. Rainey, Tom King, and Bryan Talbot
See which titles were nominated across key categories: Environmental, Crime, and Younger Audiences
Explore special jury selections from elementary, middle, and high school student panels in Poitiers
Every year, as part of the Angoulême Comic Art Festival, the committee create the Official Selection for Angoulême, a list of what they consider to be the finest comic books published in French the previous year. And the most prestigious award in the comics medium. There is now no Angouleme Comic Art Festival for 2026, as regular readers know, and there will be no Official Selection or a Grand Prix for the one considered the very best. But Bleeding Cool has obtained the list of what would have been the Official Selection for Angoulême 2026. And yes, because we are Bleeding Cool, we will highlight notable mentions for English speaking comic book creators are French translations of Tom Gauld’s Physics for Cats, Bleeding Cool favourite Paul B Rainey’s Why Don’t You Love Me, Supergirl team Tom King and Bilquis Henry’s Helen Of Wyndborne, Bryan Talbot’s The Casebook Of Stamford Hawksmoor (yet to find a US publisher), Saga Volume 12 by Bryan K Vaughan and Fiona Staples, Downlands by Norm Konyu, The Sacrificers Vol 3 by Rick Remender and Max Fiumara and Watership Down: The Graphic Novel by Richard Adams, James Sturm and Joe Sutphin. We have also added the three school jury prize selections as part of a partnership with the Poitiers Education Authority. We are missing what would have been the Heritage or Archive section.
Official Selection:
Continuing Series:
Best Environmental:
Best Crime (Polar)
Younger Audiences:
Au rythme de mon ruban by Yumi Kurokawa (Akata)
Chiwawow by Clémence Sauvage (Biscoto)
Yon – Tome 1 by Camille Broutin (Dargaud)
Les Foudroyants by Mathieu Burniat and Kerascoët (Dargaud)
Betty and Polo. La grande évasion by Adrien Poissier (Dargaud)
Mousquetaires fantastiques – Tome 1. La fontaine du fabuliste by Deveney/Dante/Follin (Delcourt)
Mi-mouche by Véro Cazot and Carole Maurel (Dupuis)
Jefferson by Antoine Ronzon (Gallimard BD)
Dernière Chance pour trouver Duke by Shang Zhang (Kinaye)
Great Kaiju Gaea-Tima by Kent (Kioon)
Sentimental Kiss by Camille Van Hoof (L’Employé. e du moi)
Draculours by Bérangère Delaporte (La Doux)
Camille – Tome 2. You-hou, les p’tits martiens ! by Jacques Duquennoy (La Malle aux images)
Princesse, Fée, Sirène. La coloc-au-lac by Anne-Sophie Constancien (La ville brûle)
Louve by Miyako Miiya (Le Renard doré)
Le Monde sauvage – Tome 1. Le renard roux by Sylvain Bauduret (Les Editions de la Gouttière)
Iles – Tome 1. Petite chose by Maupomé and Soleilhac (Les Editions de la Gouttière)
Les Aventures pas sages de la Baba Yaga by Leray and Lopoukhine (Seuil Jeunesse BD)
High School Jury Selection (15-17)
Jefferson, by Antoine Ronzon, published by Gallimard Bande Dessinée
Les poissons, eux, ne pleurent pas… by Laurent Galandon, Jean-Denis Pendanx, published by Daniel Maghen
Les Salamandres by Julien Frey, Adrian Huelva, published by Drakoo
Minuit passé by Gaëlle Geniller,published by Delcourt
Shin Zero T.1 by Guillaume Singelin, Mathieu Bablet, published by Rue de Sèvres
Middle School Jury Selection (11-14)
Brille ! T.1, Jenny, Alexis Coridun, published by Delcourt
Camille Cobra, Cléry Dubourg, Léo Louis-Honoré, published by Biscoto
Foudroyants T.1 : L’armée de Neptune, Mathieu Burniat, Kerascoët, published by Dargaud, collected by Charivari
La grande parenthèse, Simon Hureau, published by møtus
Lina et le secret de la passerelle, Mathilde Domecq, Julien Frey, published by de la Gouttière
Elementary School Jury Selection (6-10)
Brume T.3 : La source des secrets, Carine Hinder, Jérôme Pélissier, published by Glenat
Florimonde et l’affaire Coquillette, Simon Bournel-Bosson, Maxime Gueugneau, published by L’Agrume
L’Île des mythes T.1 : L’Éveil, Anaïs Halard, Sole Otero, published by Casterman
Petite-Plume fée archimagique, Lucile Ahrweiller, published by Sens dessus dessous
Super A T.1 : Les Pouvoirs animaux, Jérémie Moreau, published by Albin Michel
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