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Behind the controversy caused by the carte blanche to the author of comics, three sources of tension: the pornographic part of his work denounced for a fixation on minors, his violent behavior online and the absence of justification for a festival in struggling with her internal ailments.
On Wednesday, the Angoulême International Comics Festival announced its decision to deprogram the carte blanche to Bastien Vivès scheduled for the end of January, no longer quite a young author (he is 38 years old) of a new generation of cartoonists of which he was very early the figurehead, the one who catalysed attention, praise and bestsellers. This exhibition project had ignited the fury of Internet users on social networks, judging that this was one pedestal too many, a useless honor for what one of the vindictive posts that could easily be read on Twitter qualified as “reac of 40 freelancers, some works of which participate actively and in broad daylight in the trivialization of pedophilia and the culture of rape”. Author of three overtly pornographic volumes in a work already rich in around forty titles – Melons of Anger (2011), Mental Dump (2018 at Hammerhead Sharks), and Little Paul (2018 at Glénat) on the sexual adventures of a kid with an oversized penis – Vivès allowed himself all the licenses, all the fantasies according to