In previous editions, the prize was awarded to Peeters Dragon for RG (2008), Maseboone Mau for Goodbye Sir (2009), Chabouté for Newfoundland (2010), Ed Brubaker Sean Philips for Criminal T5 (2011), Arnaud Malherbe Vincent Pierrot for Belleville story and Marc-Antoine Matthieu for 3’’ (2012), Laurent Astier for Cellule poison (2013), Fabien Nury Brüno for Tyler Cross (2014), Antonio Altarriba Keko for Moi, Assassin (2015), Julie Rocheleau Olivier Bocquet for La colère de Fantômas (2016), Olivier Berlion for Le Juge: la république assassinée (2017), and Matz Léonard Chemineau for Le travailleur de la nuit (2018) and Borris for Charogne(2019), Gaët’s Julien Monier for RIP T2 (2020) et Robin Recht Matthieu Angotti for La Cage aux cons (2021), Elizabeth Colomba et Aurélie Levy for Queenie (2022), RUN et Florent Maudoux for A Short Story – La véritable histoire du Dahlia Noir (2023), Christophe Dabitch and Piero Macola for Le Passeur de lagunes (2024), Hervé Bourhis and Lucas Varela for American Parano – volume 2 (2025)