The 27th Bédélys Awards
The 27th Bédélys Awards are presented by the Montreal Comic Arts Festival in collaboration with SODEC.
The nominees for its six categories were announced on March 24.
- Bédélys Québec
- Bédélys Youth Québec
- Bédélys Independent Francophone
- Bédélys Independent Anglophone
- Bédélys Youth
- Bédélys International
The winners will be announced on May 14, 2026 as part of the Montreal Comic Arts Festival.
Find all the information on the different Bédélys categories.
BÉDÉLYS QUÉBEC AWARD
Best comic book by a Québec artist published in Québec. Presented by Librairie Planète BD.
The finalists are:
- Cannon, Lee Lai (Drawn & Quarterly)
- La glace part en morceaux, Charlotte Gosselin (Pow Pow)
- Les canots de Satan, Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau, Xavier Cadieux (Pow Pow)
- Migrasyon, Jimmy Suzan (Éditions de la Pastèque)
- Pétales et pépins, Floramaille (Nouvelle adresse)
BÉDÉLYS YOUTH QUÉBEC AWARD
Best comic book for an audience aged 14 and under by a Québec artist published in Québec. Presented by Télé-Québec.
The finalists are:
- Ataria Zéro, Alex A. (Presses Aventure)
- Chroniques de ruelles T.2 : Les rencontres de Zara, Sampar (Éditions Michel Quintin)
- La maison cachette, Erika Soucy, Geneviève Bigué (Éditions de La Pastèque)
- Le facteur de l’espace T.4 : Panique à la poste!, Guillaume Perreault (Éditions de La Pastèque)
- Mimose & Sam, la maison disparue, Cathon (Comme des géants)
BÉDÉLYS INDEPENDENT FRANCOPHONE AWARD
Best self-published francophone comic book in Québec.
The finalists are:
- Carnet d’un·e anxoissé·e, GourdonR
- L’Avenir du monde se joue au salon de thé, Chakare
- Les pieds d’Isadora, Karima Lacroix
- Survivre, Sacha Bernard
- Un éclat dans la nuit, Maïa Zeidan
BÉDÉLYS INDEPENDENT ANGLOPHONE AWARD
Best self-published anglophone comic book in Québec.
The finalists are:
- As Seen on Conan, Alex Nem
- Life After Life, Joshua Barkman
- Take That, Nina Drew
- The Bookbinder’s Slaughter, Keenan Poloncsak
- Where the Cat Is, Jody Soh
BÉDÉLYS YOUTH AWARD
Best French-language comic book intended for young people aged 7 to 14.
The finalists are:
- Go Akio T.1 – Le plus jeune lumisurge, Chasa (Presses Aventure)
- Golem Nanny, Zimra (Drakoo)
- Jefferson, Antoine Ronzon, based on the work of Jean-Claude Mourlevat (Gallimard BD)
- La Nuit aux loups, VAN (Casterman)
- Sans voix, Alessandro Atzei, Manuele Morlacco, Lidia Bolognini (Glénat)
BÉDÉLYS INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Best French-language comic book published outside Québec.
The finalists are:
- Beneath the trees where nobody sees, Patrick Horvath (Ankama © Patrick Horvath)
- Drome, Jesse Lonergan (404 Graphic)
- Les guerres invisibles, Marina Lisa Komiya (Casterman)
- Les sentiers d’Anahuac, Romain Bertrand, Jean Dytar (Éditions Delcourt)
- Mitsuo T.1, Jérôme Hamon, Gijé (Le Lombard)
- Rouge signal, Laurie Agusti (Éditions 2042)
- Sangliers, Lisa Blumen (L’employé du moi)
- Shin Zero T.1, Guillaume Singelin, Mathieu Bablet (Rue de Sèvres – Label 619)
- Soli Deo Gloria, Jean-Christophe Deveney, Édouard Cour (Dupuis)
- Virgile, Mazel, Zidrou (Le Lombard)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The 27th Bédélys Awards are presented in collaboration with SODEC. MCAF would also like to thank its Bédélys partners: Télé-Québec, Librairie Planète BD, Crossover Comics, Librairie l’Euguélionne, N’était-ce pas l’été, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly and the Brewery Dieu du Ciel!
MCAF would also like to thank the volunteer jury members, without whom the Bédélys Awards couldn’t happen and who read over 917 comics in 2025:
Adrien Desbiens-Benn, Alexis Robin-Brisebois, Alyssa Favreau, Annie Bacon, Anthony Labonté, Arielle Leung Razafiarimanana, Audrey Bluteau, Blaise Cronimus, Catherine LeBlanc-Fredette, Cecil Castellucci, Charlotte Delwaide, Émilie Bolduc, Fy Raelison, Gabrielle Lareau, Hippolyte Jouen, Isabelle Jameson, Jean-Michel Berthiaume, Jennifer Ricard, Jessica Lecavalier, Johanne Desrochers, Laurence Gauthier, Maria Moreno Ramirez, Maud Amoretti, Maxime Beaulieu, Mélanie Pango, Mélina Lopez-Racine, Michel Chénier, Nemo Lieutier, Nina Slykhuis-Landry, Romy Dumontier, Roxane Cayer, Sara Teinturier, Saypraseuth Mounsaveng, Sébastien Boulanger, Sébastien Richard, Sébastien Samyn, Stéphanie Lamothe, Thalia Stopa, Thara Charland
And the young readers of the Ahuntsic, Langelier, Le Prévost, Marc-Favreau and Père-Ambroise libraries for their involvement.
