the Festival delegate, Franck Bondoux, made this decision after the government announced the return of gauges for major events.
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A decision taken after government announcements to fight the Covid-19 epidemic. The 49th Angoulême international comic book festival, initially scheduled for January 27 to 30, will be postponed due to the health crisis, its delegate general Franck Bondoux announced on Tuesday, December 28.
Faced with the surge in contamination and after the new restriction measures, announced on Monday, including the return of gauges for major events, “the idea is not to force fate at all costs to have a degraded event”, he explained. The event would be “well beyond the gauges by combining all the audiences present in the city”, and the organizers could not take the risk in the face of the uncertainty over the duration of the restriction measures, clarified Franck Bondoux.
The festival will be probably carry over to “the end of winter or the beginning of spring” depending on the evolution of the situation, in view of “uncertainty” caused by the rise in Covid-19 cases in recent weeks, he said. “With this postponement, the festival will be in vital need of exceptional” and “very significant” help authorities to ensure its future, he continued.
The flagship event in the world of the ninth art had already seen its 2021 edition strongly disrupted by the Covid-19 epidemic, giving up meeting the general public in June.