The ''Association des Critiques et des journalistes de Bande Dessinée'' (ACBD) ( en, Association of Critics and Journalists of Comics) is a French association of comics, critics and journalists, who gave the Prix Bloody Mary from 1984 to 2003 and the

Prix de la critique The Prix de la critique is a prize awarded by the Association des Critiques et des journalistes de Bande Dessinée to the best comic album released for a year in France. Previously, from 1984 to 2003, it was called ''Prix Bloody Mary'' and awarded ...

from 2004 until the present day. Since 2007 it gives the Prix Asie-ACBD during the

Japan Expo Japan Expo is a convention on Japanese popular culture - the largest of its kind in the world - taking place in Paris, France, although it has branched out into a partnership festival - Kultima - and expanded to include some European and US pop c ...

. Every year the association publishes a report about the state of the comics industry in France.

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