Report: Jailed Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani to be freed next month
In a world where cartoonists and other artists are often on the front line of social change, they unfortunately also sometimes pay a price...
French publishers threaten to start their own festival as Minister of Culture agrees to...
L'Affaire de Angoulême continues and will not stop. As we reported yesterday, 40 French publishers — basically all the important players in France— have...
French publishers announce boycott of Angoulême after disastrous 2016 festival
The Angoulême Comics Festival is supposed to be the crowning event of the comics world, a festival that celebrates the art of the medium...
US publisher goes on shopping spree at Angoulême
I promised I would have only ONE MORE post on Angoulême and here it is! Calvin Reid went to this year fest and has...
Survey of Italian comics retailers reveals a similar Indie/Big Two split
Federico Salvan of the Italian comics news site Manga Forever dropped me a line to alert me to a retailer survey on the state...
Four French women cartoonists turn down knighthoods to protest poor treatment
by Xavier Lancel
In a never-ending whirlpool of controversy, Fleur Pellerin, french minister of Culture, released a list of people who will received a medal...
Angoulême controversy just won’t stop, as the jury issues an apology and Franck Bondoux...
The controversy over the "faux Fauves" at Saturday's awards ceremony at the Angoulême comics festival just won't die down, and festival director Frank Bondous...
Angoulême Festival manages to get even worse by humiliating cartoonists with “Faux Fauves”
Angoulême has really jumped the shark this year. Not content with showing a medieval level knowledge of art and comics history by claiming that...
Meanwhile in Angoulême: diary comics, signings and exhibits
Lest we forget, all the hubbub about the Grand Prix aside, the Angoulême comics festival is now underway and a glorious festival it is....
MCM conventions expanding in Europe
Speaking of conventions and their spread, the MCM Comic Con brand is expanding to Germany and Belgium. Currently MCM holds shows in...
So now Claire Wendling doesn’t want the Angoulëme Grand Prix either
So after a few solid weeks of controversy and outcry, the finalists for this year's FIBD Grand Prix were announced: Alan Moore, Hermann...
NBM celebrates 40 years with a new logo, new brand and new website
When you look at the list of comics publishers who have stayed the course throughout decades of tumultuous changes in distribution and audience, one...
