Go, Read: Jean-Louis Gauthey On L’Affair L’Association

Via a short piece by Didier Pasamonik on the French-language comics news clearinghouse ActuaBD comes word of this essay by Jean-Louis Gauthey of Cornelius on the dramatic upheaval currently rolling through alt-comics giant L'Association. While I lack the contextual information to make total sense of the piece and the various conflicts/relationships involved, it does seem to provide a perspective of another alt-comics interested (from different conceptions of alt-comics, Gauthey admits), sort-of outside observer. The main thrust of the piece seems to be that L'Association is important to other publishers with an interest in that kind of material because losing that publisher would mean a huge loss in terms of the overall number of authors and approaches being published -- something would likely take its place just as L'Association could be seen as a replacement for earlier efforts, but no one wants to wait around for that kind of rebirth. Gauthey also denies having played any direct role in terms of the current imbroglio, suggests that L'Association is better shape financially than principals admit, and says that in terms of its future structure could learn from its publishing peers and maybe its own name.
 
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