Unraveling the dramatic situation of comic book authors is more urgent than ever. This is what the Autrices Auteurs en action (AAA) collective says, an informal group formed in 2020 during the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In his new platform, he calls for a boycott of the Comic Strip Festival in June “if no real and concrete act is taken by then”.
The screenwriter Fabien Vehlmann, at the controls of the iconic series “Spirou and Fantasio” and of the best-seller “Seul” (Bruno Gazzotti in the drawing) is among those (more than 500 signatures to date) who signed it, like Catherine Meurisse, the first comic book author elected to the Académie des beaux-arts, and many others …
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