The
Association des Critiques et des journalistes de Bande Dessinée (ACBD) 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 from 2004 until the present day. Since 2007 it gives the Prix Asie-ACBD during the
Japan Expo. Every year the association publishes a report about the state of the comics industry in France.