The National Publishing Syndicate (SNE) will create the Assizes of the BD, announces Moïse Kissous, founder of the Steinkis group and president of the BD group at the SNE, in an interview with the ActuaLitté site which will be published on Sunday.
According to this publisher, the purpose of this meeting and to respond "to the crisis of confidence that we are going through". "I hear authors tell me that the situation is deleterious, that they do not like the way things are expressed on social networks," said Moïse Kissous on the specialized site. “I convinced my colleagues that we had to organize the Assizes of the comic strip: it has been a while since we have measured the complexity of the situation, that we exchange and seek to find solutions. And above all, that we refuse to say yes to solutions that are too easy or too obvious. "
Context of crisis
For him, this event should facilitate “the conditions for a debate, an exchange, a sharing, which allows each to better understand the situation of the other. And which I hope will lead to something ”. “We are in a state of affairs, where trust has broken down a bit, that it must be renewed. And we want the outstretched hand to be grasped, because it is in good faith, ”said the editor.
The SNE intends to organize these meetings before the summer of 2020, in full year of comics. This proposal comes in a context of crisis between authors and publishers. A collective of 3,500 authors signed on Thursday in Le Monde a forum calling on the State to give authors and authors "fairer and more dignified conditions".
"The eternal variable of adjustment of the creative industries"
This forum is based in particular on the report by Bruno Racine, The author and the act of creation , the content of which was revealed on January 31. It draws up the observation of a precarious profession, whose living and working conditions continue to deteriorate, in particular for the authors and authors of comics. The Angoulême International Comics Festival (FIBD) was, this year, a place of protest for mobilized artist-authors. Several of them assured that, without significant measures to improve their status, they would boycott the FIBD 2021.
“If the recommended measures are applied, artist-authors will finally cease to be the eternal adjustment variable for the creative industries. Designers will find their rightful place, "say the signatories of the forum published on February 13.
The Racine report makes 23 recommendations to improve the status of artist-authors. The Minister of Culture Franck Riester must announce next Tuesday at 11 am what measures the government intends to put in place. But the SNE, which brings together more than 700 publishers, called for an impact study. By the voice of its president Vincent Montagne, president of the group Media Participations, the union opposes the request of the authors to receive at least 10% of the price of a book.
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