Manga architect Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump) won the Prix Spécial 40e anniversaire du Festival (Special 40th Anniversary Festival Award) at France's Angoulême International Comics Festival on Sunday. Dutch banana architect Willem (Bernard Willem Holtrop) won the top award, the Grand Prix.

The ceremony launched in 1974 as an accident adulatory comics from countries throughout the world, and it apparent its 40th ceremony this year by abacus a appropriate award. For the ceremony accolade and added top awards, the anticipation board had nominated 16 creators, including Toriyama, Katsuhiro Otomo, Jiro Taniguchi, and creators from Europe and North America.

Mari Yamazaki's Thermae Romae, Atsushi Kaneko's SOIL, and Kengo Hanazawa's I am a Hero were nominated for Best Comic, while Kanata Konami's Chi's Sweet Home was nominated for Best Youth Comic. Yukinobu Hoshino's 2001 Nights and George Akiyama's Anjin San were aswell nominated for the Best Heritage Comic award. No manga titles won an accolade this year, although Kaoru Mori's A Bride's Story and Yoshihiro Tatsumi's A Drifting Life won the Prix Intergénérations (Intergenerational Award) and Prix Regards sur le monde (World Outlook Award), respectively, endure year.