Demonstration of comic book authors in Angoulême on January 31, 2015 -
B. Chapon / 20 Minutes
The bubble has exploded.
The 2021 edition of the International Comics Festival in Angoulême is canceled due to the coronavirus epidemic, organizers announced on Friday.
This Festival, which is traditionally held at the end of January, and which had awarded its prizes behind closed doors at that time, gave up an exceptional open-air general public edition at the end of June 2021, the management explained in a press release.
“In view of the evolution of the current health context, to organize an edition of the Festival next June - as it had been envisaged last November - would have meant renouncing many dimensions which form the basis of the identity and the raison d'être of the 'event since its origin ”, she underlined.
See you in 2022
Therefore, "the organization of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, in conjunction with the FIBD Association, and after consultation with its partners, has decided to meet all of you at the end of January 2022" , she added.
The 49th edition is scheduled from January 27 to 30.
One award was missing among those awarded at the end of January, the most prestigious, the Grand Prix, which rewards the entire work of an author.
This 2021 Grand Prix will indeed be awarded at the end of June, as initially planned, in a form that has not been communicated.
The 2020 Grand Prix was awarded to Emmanuel Guibert.
An exhibition at the Angoulême Museum devoted to his work, which was normally due to open on January 30, is waiting to be able to do so as soon as it is authorized.
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