Titles in the running for the 2026 edition
Every year, comic book enthusiasts vote online to select the winner of the Comic Book Award from a selection compiled by Expérience bookshop, a long-standing partner of the festival:
- Marcie – Le Point de bascule, by Cati Baur (Dargaud)
- IRL, by Mark Eacersall & Jérôme Savoyen (Glénat)
- Caballero Bueno, by Thomas Lavachery & Thomas Gilbert (Rue de Sèvres)
- Les Singes, by Yann LeBec (Dupuis)
- Thrillerville, by Lerenard & Alex Puvilland (Daniel Maghen)
- Saudade, by Vincent Turhan (Sarbacane)
- Contrapaso, by Teresa Valero (Dupuis)
The jury
The Quais du Polar / Librairie Expérience / ICI Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Crime Comic Book Award will be presented by… you!
From 8 January to 15 February 2026, you can vote for your favourite comic book and take part in the prize selection process. The album that receives the most votes will win the prize, and you could win a signed copy of the winning comic book!
Previous winners
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)
