The activities held annually include professional meetings with publishers that offer aspirants employment opportunities. The publishers give some 200 interviews to new cartoonists. The interviews can be requested directly from the festival’s organisers and take place in the city centre between 1 and 3 April.
This year AC/E is supporting the participation of Jean Wacquet, publishing director and editor-in-chief of French publishing firm Soleil which specialises in ‘genre’ comics (particularly fantasy and science-fiction) and includes BD, comic, manga and children’s titles, and Denton J. Tipton, director of one of the leading US firms, IDW Publishing.