France’s top comic strip artist has accused the government of the “worst censorship in publishing history” after it cancelled ...

Le tirage de la bande dessinée, qui devait être initialement de 900 000 exemplaires, n’a pas été précisé à ce stade.

Jeudi dernier, la ministre de l’Éducation nationale Elisabeth Borne a annoncé que le livre La Belle et la Bête illustré par ...

The French government has been accused of censorship after it cancelled a book order for 800,000 copies of Beauty and the ...

Le dessinateur a qualifié cette annulation de commande par le ministère de l’éducation comme la « plus grosse affaire de ...

Le livre, qui a été retoqué par le ministère de l'Education, estimant que le contenu était trop adulte, sera publié en septembre prochain.

Julien Berjeaut, whose pen name is Jul, had been asked to illustrate an 18th-century version of the famous fairy tale for a government scheme to give 800,000 primary school graduates a revamped ...

Le livre La Belle et la Bête illustré par Jul a été décommandé par le ministère de l'Éducation nationale, mais il paraîtra comme prévu en librairie, annonce l'éditeur ce vendredi 21 mars.

Julien Berjeaut says the decision to pull the order was "as if Trump and his team were in charge." The French government has been accused of censorship after it cancelled a book order for 800,000 ...

But illustrator Julien Berjeaut – known as Jul – said the ministry's objections were spurious, and that he feared the book was pulled because the characters he portrayed in it were dark-skinned.

Julien Berjeaut says the decision to pull the order was "as if Trump and his team were in charge." [Getty Images] ...