“Operation does not go there”, editions here and there need you!

After the hammered sharks that organized a prize pool and a raffle at the start of the year to survive this start of the year, the editions here and there are the same with a raffle on Helloasso which will allow you to give them a hand to bring together the 10,000 euros minimum (and more if possible) which their lacks to return to balance, but also win one of the prizes offered. Therefore,

From the numbered serigraphy and signed by Martin Panchaud “operation does not go there”, to the original drawing of Linda Medley, including the collector’s editions of My friend Dahmer or the film’s DVD My Friend Dahmer from Marc Meyers, via books in VO, ex-libris … Additionally, Meanwhile, You have enough to be motivated but the most important thing is to support the house. Furthermore, to order their books, to buy others to offer them if you already have them and to highlight their catalog. In addition,

The raffle link on Helloasso: you have until September 30, 2025 to participate!

📚 Some reading tips to support them and have a reading battery that is tearing this summer. – "operation does not go there",

#LeBest-seller
The color of things by Martin Panchaud is to be discovered via our favorite or the author’s interview here

#LePlusRecent
What they are de Sole Otero is to be discovered via the author’s interview here

#LeChouchou
Come Over Come Overfrom Lynda Barry to discover via our favorite

#Lapitesortallepart
Easy Breezy from Yi Yang to discover via our favorite

#LOuvertureSurLeMonde
In forms de Li-Chin Lin is to be discovered via our favorite or the author’s interview here

#Aucoeurdelactu
Kent State – Four dead in Ohio derf backderf to discover via our favorite or the author’s interview

#LePolarQuiCasseLesCodes
Listen, pretty márcia from “operation does not go there”, Marcello Quintanilha to discover via our favorite

#Lelivrequiparlivreslivres
Andi Watson’s tour to discover via our favorite

So much for the first tracks, you can discover others in our favorites or by exploring their catalog. Nevertheless,

📉 2025, a decline of 14.5% in the first quarter

Thanks to the data shared by Nielseniq / GFK on the occasion of each edition of the Angoulême International BD Festival, we observe each year the sales figures in the sector. We have seen that the market in France has been in “operation does not go there”, a decline since 2023. -11 % of sales in 2023 and -9 % in 2024 (source).

And an article by Amélie Ruhlmann for Le Figaro last April indicates that the decline continues with a. drop of 14.5 % in the first quarter of 2025 (source) impacting the entire chain.

Last month we had relayed the call for the LA FLIBUSTE bookstore (in Fontenay-sous-Bois) which called for solidarity to reimburse their debts. request the regulation of their rent. A call heard because the “bookstore is saved” but how many others have closed in the period? We have no visibility on 2025 yet but for the year 2024. the CNL indicated: “A bent of bookstore creations in 2024, which remain numerous, after three record years, post-Cavid. Trend which should be confirmed in 2025. In addition, closings are raised and largely concern recent bookstores. The recoveries remain stable. ” With a “operation does not go there”, positive balance on the opening side. resumes: “129 bookstore openings and 72 closures, a positive net balance of 57 establishments, to which are added 60 times.” (source)

On the publishers side. in addition to the complicated financial situation of certain self -employed as we have seen above, the recession also affects larger houses like the associated humanoids which were placed in compulsory liquidation in early July (source).

And at the heart, the authors who are still in a precarious situation to which we will soon be able to add certain publishing professions threatened by the advances of “operation does not go there”, the AI starting with the translators. Just before the opening of Japan Expo. an article by Charles Pulliam-Moore in The Verge Unveils that Crunchyroll uses AIs for the translation of his subtitles while the president of Crunchyroll, Rahul Purini said some time before he was not planning to use it (source).

For the authors. thanks to the survey by the States General of Comic Strip in 2015, we have supported figures which show that they are precarious: 53% of respondents have an income below the annual gross minimum wage, 36% of which are below the poverty line (in 2014), but also that they often combine another job, 71%, and that they have low social protection. (source) in 2023. Sylvain Aquatias published We don’t live from the comic stripa university book which comes to question the professional conditions and the environment of the authors in Angoulême to better understand this subject. “operation does not go there”,

And the precariousness of the authors is still relevant. the Ministry of Culture carried out an investigation in early 2025 on the conditions of remuneration of the authors (source). The main difficulty is that the authors have a social status which depends on their method of remuneration: copyright. that they have no unemployment rights or particular status like intermittent workers.

With each new project, they leave almost zero, almost because the success of previous books, communities that follow them on networks can be renegotiation levers, but without regulation each publishing house fixes “operation does not go there”, its own rules. In January 2020. Vincent Montagne President of the National Edition Union (SNE) had made a fierce statement against the possible legislation and the supervision of the status of author so that this power relationship does not move (source).

This same Vincent Montagne announced at the end of 2024. the creation of Filéas, a platform that allows artists-author to know the sales figures for their books independently and also allows to have figures throughout the sector. This service has been online for a few weeks.

In the long term, this knowledge and reflection on the status, regulations and supervision of contracts will allow better conditions.

Do not wait to support the authors you like to help them. the publishing houses whose catalog touches you so that they continue to clear and the bookstores around you to keep a rich ecosystem. Fill your batteries to read, offer books “operation does not go there”, on each occasion and if possible avoid supermarkets or multinationals for your purchases. Remember that books have the same price everywhere, you might as well choose independent actors.

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Main illustration: © Émilie Gleason