Missed It: Baron Jacques Jonet, RIP

Baron Jacques Jonet, the current president of the massive media conglomerate Media-Participations, passed away on Saturday, April 7, according to a note discovered by ActuaBD.com. I usually make a mistake in this kind of summary writing across languages, but let me try my best: Media-Participations owns Dargaud, Lombard, manga-centric Kana, Dupuis, and a number of individual effort-driven publishing enterprises, allowing it to claim to be the #1 publisher of comics in Europe. Jonet was apparently involved with the negotiations arising from turmoil between the company and its 2004 acquisition Dupuis; the company's size and the way that officers like Jonet were part of the fabric of traditional European culture may have fueled some of the fears of Media-Participations' dominant-company status in terms of guaranteeing for the market the widest possible expression.
 
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