At the Angoulême Comics Festival, an existential disaster with no answer? | EUROtoday

LThe bubble has burst for good. And the final nail within the coffin of the Angoulême International Comic Strip Festival (FIBD) has simply been planted this morning: the mayor of Angoulême, Xavier Bonnefont, alongside the prefect Jérôme Harnois, the regional president Alain Rousset and the president of the division Jérôme Sourisseau, confirmed, throughout a press convention held from the city corridor, the cancellation of the FIBD 2026, initially scheduled between January 29 to 1^er FEBRUARY. This is the second time, since its creation in 1974, that the competition is not going to happen within the flesh and in public, after the closed-door version of 2021, within the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Little suspense to inform the reality: for the reason that preliminary publication, on January 23, 2025, of an investigation by our colleagues from L’Humanité Magazine on governance…