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Faced with the shortage of paper, comics do not bubble

2021-11-20T08:03:46.169Z


SURVEY - Infernal pace, urgent work, very long-term forecasts ... Publishers, production managers or printers faced with shortages of raw materials are deploying mad energy to ensure orders for booksellers, a few weeks before Christmas.


We work like crazy.

My manufacturing department, which was unable to take any time off this summer, is on deck 24 hours a day, says

Christel Hoolans general manager of Kana and Le Lombard editions

.

New, ubiquitous, time-consuming ... Comic book publishers, production or manufacturing managers are unanimous when they talk about the shortage and the rise in the prices of raw materials which are shaking the publishing world.

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Between supply times extended by several weeks, additional cost of paper and cardboard (we are talking about an increase of between 15 and 30% and 40% respectively) the business struggles and faces, but at what price?

The activity has become tedious, because nothing works normally,

continues Christel Hoolans

.

Every day you have to speak with a stationery maker, a cardboard maker or a printer to ensure that operations run smoothly.

Even when you have been assured of an order, we can tell you at the last moment that the deadlines will not be able to

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Source: lefigaro

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