visit.brussels, in close collaboration with its partners, wants to show its support for comic strip creation and bring together existing initiatives by awarding the Atomium Comic Strip Prizes, most of which are awarded in cash to enable the winners to finance their work. More than €95 000 in total will be distributed between the nine prizes.

The winners of the Atomium Prizes will be revealed on 9 September during a ceremony in the company of authors and big names from the publishing world

Prize: €10,000
Subject: This prize is intended to reward the work of one or more authors from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation who have produced an original and innovative work.
Partner: Ms Bénédicte Linard, Minister for Culture of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Prize: €7,500 in cash
Subject: the Brussels Prize is awarded to an author who has succeeded in highlighting Brussels in their work.
Partner: Mr Rudi Vervoort, Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region

Prize: €20,000 in advertising space, as well as considerable editorial presence.
Subject: RTBF is rewarding a genre in tune with PREM1ÈRE audiences.
Partner: RTBF (Belgian Radio-Television of the French Community)

Prize: €3,000 in cash
Subject: the Cognito Prize for historic comic strips rewards the best historical comic strip.
Partner: Cognito Foundation

Prize: €20,000 in advertising space, as well as considerable editorial presence.
Subject: to reward the book that, every year, has stood out in examining the world around us in the form of a news report comic strip.
Partner: Le Soir

Prize: story published by Journal Spirou and all publications will be paid at the professional rate.
Subject: awards comic strip short stories (maximum 4 pages) featuring Spirou and Fantasio. Prize for under 18s who have published a maximum of three comic books
Partner: Journal Spirou

Prize: €10,000 and an exhibition in Turnhout
Subject: since 1977, this biennial award has been the most important distinction in the comic strip field in Flanders. It rewards a Flemish author for one or more works.
Partner: Strip Turnhout/Stripgids.

Prize: €5,000 in cash
Subject: recognises a comic book that prompts ethical and social reflection, and that addresses contemporary social issues in a positive, constructive and noble-minded way; the subject of which has a local scope/resonance (local, Belgian, European).
Partner: André Querton
With the kind permission of the Atomium non-profit association