World Comics

Besides having maybe the best name for a cartoonist ever, Finnish artist Amanda Vähämäki is one of those creators whose work alays has an...

If, like The Beat, you have been mourning the absence of Zainab Akhtar's byline around here, it's because she's relaunched her own blog, Comics&Cola,...

Even if you're not at the Detroit Fanfare there is plenty to do around the world in comics this weekend!

As we've been noting more and more, comics are a global culture, and there's even a comic shop in Cairo, Kryptonite located in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt. Here's the description from the English language "Yelp" of the region.

Irish artist Will Sliney may be sad today about Fearless Defenders being cancelled, but on the plus side he's a Hall of Fame nominee...

Our own Zainab Ahktar has scoped out the arrival of a new Blacksad book. It's called AMARILLO and it has obvious allusions to the great American Coming Of Age Ritual: driving across the country in an ace vehicle. Zainab gave a rough translation of the blurb:

Jamie Coville was at it again and has provided us with audio and photos of this year's ceremony, which was held at the Fan...

Snowpiercer opened in South Korea earlier this month to rave reviews and box-office breaking sales. But the 126 minute film, based on popular bande dessinée...

If you asked us what the world' biggest comics show was, we'd say Comiket, which just wrapped up in Tokyo the other day, and...

One of the leaders of the protest movement against a Dutch newspaper publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad—protests which killed scores f people and engulfed the entire Islamic world in violence and protest—now says he was wrong. Ahmad Akkari, now 35, says he was way offbase when he led the protests.

Ah to have been in the room for this! At the recent International Manga Fest in Tokyo, manga superstar Naoki Urasawa (Monster), and the...

I often run links about India's comics market while still wondering just how emerging it is, but Ryan Holmberg's great profile of Leaping...