Comics: authors threaten to boycott the Angoulême Festival

Catherine Meurisse, Lewis Trondheim, Posy Simmonds, Luz... In an unprecedented petition, two authors' collectives ask the association that owns the event to denounce its contract with the 9th Art+ company.

Anouk Ricard, Chris Ware, Luz, Art Spiegelman, Catherine Meurisse... Nearly a thousand authors signed a petition, published last night, symbol of an anger that continues to mount against the organizing society of the famous comics festival.

In a text published on the site of L'Humanité, two collectives bringing together 400 comics authors ask the association that owns the International Festival of Comics in Angoulême to denounce the contract that binds it with the 9th Art+ society.

They will boycott the event if the association does not denounce the contract that binds it to the society 9e Art + and if no call for projects is launched. A petition is online. The association gathers its council

By the Syndicat des travailleurs. ususes artistes-auteur. ices (STAA) and the collective Metoo BD. ...