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Guillaume Bouzard wins Prix Charlie Schlingo

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Alan Gardner Published: February 9, 2026 1 minute 0 comments

At the close of this year’s Le Grand Off, the festival awarded the Prix Charlie Schlingo to French cartoonist Guillaume Bouzard for his album Les Vacances chez Pépé-Mémé. The album is described as a short, gag-driven comic about childhood holidays with grandparents, rendered in Guillaume’s trademark crude, elastic offbeat drawing style.

The other prize of the night: The “Couilles au cul” (“balls up your ass” or “balls of steel”) went to a collection of artists whose work was featured in “100 dessins pour Gaza” (“100 drawings for Gaza”). Notable cartoonists in the collection include: Altan, Angel Boligán, Patrick Chappatte, Emil Ferris, Philippe Geluck, Ben Jennings, Marilena Nardi, Mohammad Sabaaneh, Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, Ann Telnaes, Willem, and Wozniak.