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Prix de la critique
The Prix de la critique is a prize awarded by the Association des Critiques et des journalistes de Bande Dessinée to the best comic album released for a year in France. Previously, from 1984 to 2003, it was called "Prix Bloody Mary" and awarded at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Concerned at first with albums of the Franco-Belgian comics school it was eventually interested in works coming from the comic book tradition of more distant lands.
The winner of the award for that year is
Prix Mystère de la critique
The Prix Mystère de la critique was established in 1972 by the magazine "", published by the from 1948 to 1976, and continues to be awarded each year by its founder, Georges Rieben and his team. It has the characteristic of having survived the demise of the magazine.
The Prix Mystère de la critique is one of the oldest French award for a detective novel.
Since 2011, the award ceremony takes place at the .
The prize is divided in two categories: