Sakana Sakatsuki is the Winner of the BolognaRagazzi Award Comics – Young Adult 2023!
We're delighted to announce Sakana Sakatsuki, artist of Planetarium Ghost Travel: The Art of Sakatsuki Sakana, has won the BolognaRagazzi Award Comics - Young Adult category.
The BolognaRagazzi award, promoted by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, rewards the best books in terms of graphic and editorial design and is considered one of the most prestigious awards for artists and illustrators.
The jury was incredibly complimentary of Sakana’s work and said:
'Sakana Sakatsuki stands at the forefront of a new wave of fantastic narrative that adapt the tropes of science fiction to process the subtle sentiments of an uncertain present. Surprising in its delicacy and innovation, Sakatsuki synthesizes stylistic elements of manga with elements of western culture to recount the restlessness and loneliness of a young space traveler. Simultaneously epic and intimate, Ghost Travel expresses and re-expresses the tonal heart of its narrative conceit in a variety of visual styles and aesthetic languages. These include color illustrations accompanied by small poetic texts and monochrome comics sequences which introduce his narrative world. We are proud to award the BRAW Comics Prize for Young Adults to this innovative breakthrough work which signals the start of Sakatsuki’s Star Tripper series of narrative manga, the first volume of which has also recently been published.'
To find out more about the award visit:
https://www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/en/awards/bolognaragazzi-award/bolognaragazzi-award-all-the-2023-winners/comics-young-adult-2023/10911.html