The noose is getting tighter around the Angoulême International Comic Festival (FIBD). The videoconference meeting, Monday 10 November, changed the crisis situation currently rocking the Charente demonstrations. Long divided on the issue, major publishers in the sector have informed the city’s (variously right-wing) mayor, Xavier Bonnefont, that they will boycott the next edition of the festival, which runs from 29 to 1 January.uh February, – and not just 2027, as previously announced – if society 9e Art + was not excluded from the call for tenders launched by the FIBD association, the owner of the event, for its organization.
Unprecedented upheaval has rocked the world of comics since the association announced that 9e Art+ is still seeking to extend its delegation contract starting in 2028 for a period of nine years. The company headed by Franck Bondoux has been in the crosshairs of the profession for ten months and the discovery of a large number of dysfunctions: accounting opacity, toxic management, degradation of the artistic offer, suspicions of nepotism, to which was added the dismissal of an employee after filing a complaint about the rape she said she suffered during the 2024 edition of the festival.
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