World Comics

by Alex Dueben Jessica Abel has produced a unique body of work in comics that ranges from two collections of her award winning comic series...

Among comics reprints there are few holy grails left. We've finally got Miracleman (and no one cares) we're getting Master of Kung Fu, and now, perhaps the last great library. Via Dark Horse media partner Bleeding Cool comes word that DH has gained the rights to put out a "lavish series of hardcover volumes" reprinting "the library of Mœbius." Terse but cherce. One imagines it will be similar to the Milo Manara library being reprinted currently.

Snowpiercer by writer Olivier Bocquet and the artist Jean-Marc Rochette is a gorgeous thought provoking SF story about a world where the last of...

The other day we posted a heartbreaking strip called "What a Wonderful World" by Zep featuring Titeuf, the Bart Simpson of France, in a...

In the French speaking world, a character known as Titeuf is as well known as Bart Simpson or Dennis the Menace here. He's a...

A new French language website called BD Egalite (more or less "comics equality") has launched to address rampant sexism in the French comics market....

Although this year's Small Press Expo's theme is "Cartoonists of the 21st Century," they are allowing cartoonists older than 30 to be guests as...

This post is purely for Porter Airlines fetishists who enjoy that portion of their trip to TCAF every year. Those of you who take...

Centrala is a Polish indie comics publisher that recently opened a London office, which s helping their books get wider distribution. They have three new books including what sounds like an intriguing tale about two German police officers who join the Klan to make friends and meet girls, an anthology mixing comics and cooking and a book adapting a famous Polish poem about a train into a 60 foot long comic! Eastern European comics are usually thought of as an "emerging" scene, but with publishers like Centrala and the Latvian kuš! collective getting notice, they've emerged quite a bit. Here's the Centrala books, which are all available for order.

Magnetic Press launched last year with an audacious business plan: bringing French graphic novels to the US market. While French materials has had its...

The Comixology-Delcourt team-up to bring some of the finest French language comics to the English speaking world via digital is just the start. Europe...

We just told you about the huge deal between French comics publisher Delcourt and Comixology to being a line of French comics to English via digital. Now here's one example of why it's big, an exclusive preview of the English language version of Pénélope Bagieu's Josephine. Bagieu is hugely popular in France for her down to earth comics about contemporary life. Her Exquisite Corpse was just published earlier this year by First Second; Josephine is her long running comic about a young woman with the usual complicated and annoying life—at least one of the strips below describes just about every day of my life, but I'll let you guess which.