World Comics

Via PW, word that Antonin Baudry, who wrote the GN Weapons of Mass Diplomacy and happens to be the the cultural counselor of the French Embassy is opening Albertine, a French language bookstore in the building that houses the French consulate in New York, a historic building located across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art designed by the great Stanford White, with the embassy’s cultural services division at 972 Fifth Avenue, across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The store will house "14,000 volumes of fiction, nonfiction, art, graphic novels, and children’s books in both English translation and French."

The 2014 Joe Shuster Awards, honoring the best in Canadian comics, were handed out on Saturday and here are the winners. For more information on the legacy award winners, please check out the Shuster Awards home page. In addition, Jammin' Jamie Covillerecorded the ceremony and has more photos and a list of the winners handily formatted. Thank you Jamie!

The comics scene in Nigeria has been thriving since the 1980s, but has yet to burst into the mainstream. There are tastes of what may soon emerge as youth in Nigeria fully embrace the internet—check out this sci-fi short on YouTube here, which includes an animated spaceship—but comics are still an emerging industry. On Friday, the third annual Lagos Comic Con will launch in the commercial capital of 20 million people. I corresponded with comics creator and co-founder Ayodele Elegba about the event, where we wrote about attractions, popular comics, Ebola, and cosplay.

By Naif Al-Mutawa Many years ago, I was the volleyball counsellor at a summer camp in New England. It was 1990 and I was fit...

This infographic is also an ad for WEBTOONS, a portal short serialized digital comics that are native on mobile platforms. The site is run by NAVER, the Google of South Korea. Despite the proprietary nature there is still some interesting info on the graph including projected worldwide size of the digital comics market...no idea where that came from, but webtoons are an established entertainment format in South Korea, seemingly more than in the US.

When TCJ.com co-editor and former PictureBox publisher Dan Nadel goes on a rampage ANYTHING can happen but he had a pretty good one today,...

According to a forwarded email, ReedPOP, the event company that throws New York Comic Con, C2E2, PAX and many other popular fan events, has...

Michael Cavna has details on the winners of this year's Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning presented by the Cartoonists Rights Network International. The...

The 2014 SICBA Awards were handed out on Saturday at the Glasgow Comic Con. The awards honor the best in Scottish comics, and Dungeon...

According to a French press release, and Google translate, manga master Jiro Taniguchi will be one of the main guests for the 42nd Festival...

It is generally accepted among those who have been to both that European comics festivals are superior to US comic-cons in the respect paid...

by Angeline B. Adams and Remco van Straten 7th June 2014, King's Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland Typical Belfast: it was raining, and the bus was late....