World Comics

When I was a younger sprout in comics I often wondered if there had been any more women cartoonists than Marie Severin and Ramonda Fradon? What about in France where they loved cartoonistss? The ver very great Claire Bretecher was often mentioned but was that it? Well, it turns out that all along there were other great French woman cartoonists, including Annie Goetzinger, whose amazing Girl in Dior is out now. Tonight she signs at the Kinokuniya Bookstore before apeparing MoCCA all weekend and going on tour on the below dates:

And another event, this one a screening of a documentary about one of Charlie Hebdo's earlier controversies followed by a talk with Art Spigelman...

There are a lot of comics events going on around town tonight but here's a pretty cool one, especially if you'd also like...

In case you missed it, we had a celebration of comics around the world on Friday with Beat staffers posting their thoughts on all...

    It's time for the annual nominations in Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning. The finalists, representing the best in Canadian cartooning, are chosen by a judging...

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"Sandman Overture" By Nick Eskey Okay, perhaps not a British comic, but seeing as “Sandman” was written by a British man, and is in English, its...

Best known in the US for writing Beautiful Darkness, Fabien Vehlmann is a superstar writer in France, working on some of the best known characters while winning numerous awards, and even writing the occasional movie. Here's a brief look at some of his work available in English.

Diversity is taking over the world! The UN Women, a department aimed at gender quality around the world, the European Commission, the Belgian Development...

Yesterday we learned that New Jersey is getting a comic-con...and so is China! ReedPOP is launching the Shanghai Comic Convention which will be held in just two months, May 16 and 17th at the Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing.

Makes sense, right? Ebay user hugelyimpressive is auctioning off some rare Golden Age comics he came across is order to fund his wife's boob...

§ Deb Aoki is the Charles Dickens of Storify, You may know her from that other one we mentioned recently, but she also put...