The Czech Republic’s annual Muriel Award for the best comic book or
graphic novel of the year has been given to Článek II (or Article II),
about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi governor of occupied
Bohemia and Moravia. Heydrich, one of the main architects of the Holocaust,
was known as the “Butcher of Prague”. He died of complications after
being ambushed and shot in May 1942 by a British-trained team of Czech and
Slovak paratroopers in an action code-named ‘Operation Anthropoid’.
Apart from the Muriel Award, the graphic novel about the assassination,
written by Jiří Šimáček and illustrated by Ján Lastomírský, also
won the main prize of the Czech Academy of Comics and a prize for best
script.
The Muriel Awards, established in 2008, were handed out on Thursday evening
at a ceremony at Prague’s Bio Oko cinema.