Prix du meilleur album
In the category of Best Album are on the Angoulême International Comics Festival every year the best comics since 1976 album - format with the Prix du meilleur album excellent.
Originally the award was named Alfred ( Alfred du meilleur album ), named after the pets of the characters from Alain Saint-Ogan's comic series Zig et Puce . In 1989 he was renamed Alph'Art ( Alph'Art du meilleur album ) and finally in 2004 the award for the best album .
From 1976 to 1978 and from 1986 to 2001 Angoulême also awarded a prize for the best foreign album, whereby only French-language albums were honored. Since 2002, in addition to French albums, albums by foreign artists that have been released in France or Belgium have had the chance of winning the prize in the same category. With two wins each, the comic author Yann and the comic artist Baru are the most frequently awarded in this category.
A jury selects the winner from a few nominations. In 2007, over fifty titles were nominated in the category, while in previous years it was limited to four to seven nominations.
Award winners
1970s
| year | Award winners |
| 1976 | Julio Ribera and Christian Godard for L'Empire des soleils noirs |
| 1977 | Annie Goetzinger for Légende et réalité de Casque d'or |
| 1978 | Jacques Martin for Le Specter de Carthage |
1980s
| year | Award winners |
| 1981 | Carlos Giménez for Paracuellos |
| 1982 | Cosey for Jonathan Volume 7: Kate |
| 1983 | José Antonio Muñoz and Sampayo for Alack Sinner , Volume 2: Flic ou privé |
| 1984 | Attilio Micheluzzi for Marcel Labrume , Volume 2: À la recherche des guerres perdues |
| 1985 | François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters for La Fièvre d'Urbicande from the series The mysterious cities |
| 1986 | Jerome Charyn and François Boucq for La Femme du magicien |
| 1987 | Jean-Pierre Autheman for Vic Valence , Volume 1: Une nuit chez Tennessee |
| 1988 | Laurence Harlé and Michel Blanc-Dumont for Jonathan Cartland , Volume 8: The Shadow's Survivors |
| 1989 | Frank Le Gall and Yann for Theodor Pussel , Volume 3: The fate of Maria Verita |
| Jean Teulé for Gens d'en France |
1990s
| year | Award winners | Nominations |
| 1990 | Jano for Gazoline and the Red Planet | |
| 1991 | Baru and Jean-Marc Thévenet for The Champion | |
| 1992 | Edmond Baudoin for Couma acò | |
| 1993 | Edith and Yann for Basil et Victoria , Volume 2: Jack | |
| 1994 | Fred for L'Histoire du Corbac aux baskets | |
| 1995 | André Juillard for The Blue Diary | |
| 1996 | Baru for Autoroute du Soleil | |
| 1997 | Nicolas Dumonteuil for Qui a tué l'idiot? | |
| 1998 | Nicolas de Crécy and Sylvain Chomet for Léon la Came , Volume 2: Laid, pauvre et malade |
Jacques Tardi and Didier Daeninckx for The Dogs Bite the Last Jean-Pierre Gibrat for Der Aufschub , Volume 1 Tronchet for Houppeland , Volume 1 David B. for The Holy Disease , Volume 2 Pascal Rabaté for Un ver dans le fruit |
| 1999 | Dupuy-Berberian (that is Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berbérian ) for Monsieur Jean , Volume 4: The Art of Being Happy |
Étienne Davodeau for Le Réflexe de survie Enki Bilal for The Sleep of the Monster Pascal Rabaté for Ibicus , Volume 1 |
2000s
| year | Award winners | Nominations |
| 2000 | Pascal Rabaté for Ibicus , Volume 2 |
Cosey for Zeke raconte des histoires Olivier Berlion and Éric Corbeyran for Lie-de-Vin Emmanuel Lepage and Anne Sibran for La Terre sans mal Joann Sfar for Professor Bell , Volume 1: The Mexican with Two Heads |
| 2001 | René Pétillon for Jack Palmer , Volume 12: l'Enquête corse |
David B. and Emmanuel Guibert for Le Capitaine écarlate Jean-Philippe Stassen for Déogratias Manu Larcenet for Les Entremondes , Volume 1: Lazarr Jean-Claude Denis for Luc Lamarc , Volume 7: Toutes les fleurs s'appellent Tiaré |
| 2002 | Christophe Blain for Isaac the Pirate , Volume 1: America |
Steve Darnall and Alex Ross for Uncle Sam Frederik Peeters for Blue Pills Dylan Horrocks for Hicksville Serge Le Tendre and Christian Rossi for Tirésias , Volume 1: l'Outrage and Volume 2: la Révélation Marc N'Guessan for Abersen , Volume 1: At the beginning the death of David B. stands for La Lecture des ruines |
| 2003 | Chris Ware for Jimmy Corrigan |
Joann Sfar for The Rabbi's Cat , Volume 2: Malka, the Lord of the Lions Igort for Five is the Perfect Number Daniel Clowes for David Boring Patrice Killoffer for Six Hundred and Seventy-Six Apparitions by Killoffer Jean-Philipe Bramanti and Thierry Smolderen for McCay , Volume 3: les Cœurs returns |
| 2004 | Manu Larcenet for The Everyday Struggle , Volume 1 |
David B. for The Holy Disease , Volume 6 Frederik Peeters for Lupus , Volume 1 Marjane Satrapi for jokes Jean-Christophe Chauzy and Thierry Jonquet for La Vie de ma mère: Face B Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev for Daredevil : Underboss and Daredevil: Le Scoop Adrian Tomine for summer blonde |
| 2005 | Marjane Satrapi for Chicken with Plums |
Hideshi Hino for Jigo Shoes Chester Brown for Louis Riel Kim Deitch for Une tragédie américaine Frederik Peeters for Lupus , Volume 2 Yoshiharu Tsuge for Muno no Hito Mark Kalesniko for Mail Order Bride |
| 2006 | Gipi for records for a war history |
Philippe Dupuy for Hanté François Rivière and Bruno Le Floc'h for Olivia Sturgess 1914–2004 David Vandermeulen for Fritz Haber Chantal Montellier for Les Damnés de Nanterre Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jacques Tardi for Killer do not introduce themselves Dave Cooper for Ripple |
| 2007 | Shigeru Mizuki for NonNonBâ | |
| 2008 | Shaun Tan for A New Land | |
| 2009 | Winshluss for Pinocchio |
2010s
| year | Award winners | Nominations |
| 2010 | Riad Sattouf for Pascal Brutal, tome 3: Plus Fort que les Forts | |
| 2011 | Manuele Fior for Cinq mille kilomètres par seconde | |
| 2012 | Guy Delisle for Chroniques de Jérusalem | |
| 2013 | Christophe Blain and Abel Lanzac for Quai d'Orsay: Chroniques diplomatiques 2 | |
| 2014 | Alfred for Come Prima | |
| 2015 | Riad Sattouf for L'Arabe du futur | |
| 2016 | Richard McGuire for Ici | |
| 2017 | Éric Lambé and Philippe de Pierpont for Paysage après la bataille | |
| 2018 | Jérémie Moreau for La Saga de Grimr |