La Cinquième Couche controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2012
Katz copyright dispute
Flammarion, the French rights-holder for Maus, initiated legal proceedings over Ilan Manouach's Katz. La Cinquième Couche reached an out-of-court settlement and destroyed the remaining copies because it could not sustain prolonged litigation costs.
2010
Judith Forest literary hoax revealed
5c disclosed that Judith Forest, presented as the author of the autobiographical comic 1h25, was a fictional identity created by William Henne, Xavier Löwenthal, and Thomas Boivin. The project was intended to question assumptions about authenticity and autobiography in comics rather than to represent a conventional author biography.