Benoît Peeters has a gravelly voice. “Surprisingly, I fell ill when the bad news came.” The screenwriter and editorial advisor, essayist, Hergé specialist and great connoisseur of how the world of comics works, does not hide his fatigue amidst the Angoulême apocalypse. The National Publishing Association announced this Wednesday, November 19, the absence of its members in the 2026 edition, apparently making cancellation inevitable.
The President of American Comics General convened in 2015 to collect the grievances of writers exposed to the growing impoverishment of the profession, he saw anger rising. In 1985, he won the Fauve d’or (formerly Alfred) with François Schuiten for best album at the Angoulême Festival; today, he no longer recognizes this event he attended so passionately.
How do you interpret the twists and turns of the Angoulême Festival?
