The opening of the Angoulême festival was an opportunity to immediately pierce the abscess that had swollen in recent weeks in the world of comics.

Initially, Bastien Vivès was to present an exhibition there, with unpublished drawings.

But the director had to cancel, reluctantly, this tribute in the face of the hostility of the authors of comics and associations fighting against child pornography.

"There was a legitimate reaction against an attitude that was unacceptable," said Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak.

“Bastien Vivès, as a man, still had unacceptable remarks”, underlined the Franco-Lebanese.

“He took extremely serious matters lightly.

He had insulting remarks on social networks which are in themselves very reprehensible ”.

“It is normal, somewhere, that these remarks he made caused this outcry, even years later when they were brought out.

Because they are unacceptable, he recognized it himself,” insisted the minister.

“I would have been curious to see what other drawings he was going to present”

But she reiterated that she would have preferred to see the exhibition open as planned.

“The difficulty is that it got mixed up with an exhibition that no one had seen (…) We'll never know what was in there.

I find it regrettable that the subjects are mixed, ”she explained.

“Things happened at such a rapid pace that this debate, ultimately, could not be held.

But he continues in society, ”she welcomed.



“I would have been curious to see what other drawings he was going to present in a setting like the 50th anniversary of the Angoulême Festival.

We won't know.

But he still had an attitude that didn't make it easy,” she concluded.

At the beginning of January, a preliminary investigation for the distribution of child pornography images was opened against Bastien Vivès and two publishing houses that published his works mixing minors and pornography, Glénat and Les Requins Marteaux.

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  • Angouleme Festival

  • Rima Abdul Malak

  • Minister of Culture

  • comics