World Comics

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.

What better way to celebrate the Beat's 11th anniversary than with a preview of one of our all time favorite comics, Corto Maltese by...

Woot, now this is cool. The amazing artists Bengal and Tony Sandoval will be appearing at the Magnetic Press Booth (#5534) and many cool books will be on display. In case you've missed it, Magnetic has turned out some of the best looking books over the last year—Love The Tiger to name just one—and this booth is well worth checking out. Deets:  

Beat correspondent Serhend Sirkecioglu travels from Turkey to Kazakhstan in search of the Turkic world's comics culture— and he finds it in this groundbreaking report!

In a shocking court reveal over the fate of one of the world's most beloved and influential comics characters, a Dutch court has ruled...

You all loved it when I tweeted stats, and now you can watch the ENTIRE panel section of last week's French Comics Conference, held...

The gorgeous Albertine bookstore at the French Embassy. ---- I'm in the middle of Book Expo/Book Con hubbub but I wanted to draw beat readers...

Storied French publisher Humanoids—publisher of many classics by Moebus, Jodorowsky and Bilal—has gotten into the graphic novel to movie race with a three picture...

Although I live tweeted the ceremony with its grandeur and tradition, I neglected to list the WINNERS of the 2015 Doug Wright Awards which...