Anders Nilsen has won the ACBD Critics' Comics Award 2026 for Tongues, volume 1, translated from English by Christophe Gouveia Roberto and published by Atrabile editions. The award follows Watership Down, by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin, which won in 2025. The award will be presented during the Quai des Bulles festival in Saint-Malo. Tongues blends Greek mythology, science fiction, and contemporary geopolitics. It features Prometheus continuing to suffer his ancient punishment on the Caucasus mountain, while a young girl named Astrid receives a deadly mission in East Africa and an American wanders through Central Asia, a region marked by tensions and conflicts. The work reinterprets the myth of Prometheus in a modern context, with characters, locations, and eras gradually intertwining against the backdrop of rivalries in a region rich in oil. The comic book's form is also experimental, with highly variable layouts and compositions that sometimes occupy the entire page. The ACBD association praised the work as an "experimental space," "an adventure," and "a mystery." A second volume is announced for 2027. Anders Nilsen, an American author and illustrator, began self-publishing as early as 1999 with the first episodes of Big Questions. He is also the author of Dogs and Water, Don't Go Where I Can't Follow, and The End. Big Questions earned him the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize in 2012, and several of his works have been awarded at the Ignatz Awards. French-speaking readers had previously encountered parts of his work through Atrabile, including Fin (2015) and The Wrath of Poseidon (2018), both translated by Christophe Gouveia Roberto. Tongues, originally published in English by Pantheon in 2025, extends this exploration on an entirely different scale. The ACBD Critics' Comics Award, created in 2019, annually rewards a comic book originally published in English in an anglophone country, then translated and published for the French-speaking market. For the eighth edition, 87 works published between August 2025 and July 2026 were examined by the selection committee. Five titles were finally selected: Drome by Jesse Lonergan, translated by Virgile Iscan by 404 Graphic; Helen de Wyndhorn by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Matheus Lopes, translated by Marie Renier by Glénat; The Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld, translated by Éric Fontaine by 2042 Éditions; Sacrifice, volume 4 by Rick Remender, Max Fiumara, and André Lima Araújo, translated by Benjamin Rivière by Urban Comics; and Tongues, volume 1. The jury consists of members of the Association of Comic Book Critics and Journalists, journalists, and critics specializing in comics. After the selection, ACBD members voted between August 17 and September 6, 2026. In 2025, the award was given to Watership Down, an adaptation of Richard Adams' novel by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin, translated by Pierre Clinquart and Hélène Charrier and published by Monsieur Toussaint Louverture. The album succeeded Au-dedans by Will McPhail. The ACBD, created in 1984, brings together a hundred journalists, critics, and specialists of comics and awards several prizes dedicated to comics, mangas, Quebec comics, and French-language creation.