Angoulême is underway; Brecht Evens killing it; Pénélope Bagieu wins something
The biggest comics-focused event in the world is underway drawing hundreds of thousands of people to look at comics and cartoonists with no movie stars to distract them, Despite this, only one English language reporter seems to be filing from the show, Comics Reporter's Bart Beatty who has his first two reports here and here.
Matsumoto, Blutch, Spiegelman, Mouly headline 2013 TCAF
It was a must-go sight unseen but now that it's been seen, we're dialing up Porter Air for tickets. This year's Toronto Comic Arts...
Phoenix Weekly goes digital with a special deal
The Phoenix Weekly is a UK comics magazine for kids—somewhat in the tradition of the ancient Beano and the departed Dandy—but a little more...
Mary and Bryan Talbot win Costa Award for biography
A nice capstone for a year of graphic novel triumph as Dotter of Her Fathers Eyes by Mary and Bryan Talbot has won the Costa Award for best biography. The Costa is a respected UK literary prize, and the Talbots win is emblematic of wider acceptance, says the Guardian
RIP ‘Barefoot Gen’ creator Keiji Nakazawa
BAREFOOT GEN and I SAW IT creator Keiji Nakazawa died on December 19th at age 73. The cause was lung cancer.
As a...
Non-Japanese cartoonists exhibit at the Kaigai Manga Festa
First off...congrats to cartooners Abby Denson and Matt Loux who tied the knot not long ago.
And then celebrated with a honeymoon in Japan...
New publisher: Great Beast
Small boutique publishers are popping up everywhere, and here's a newish one from the UK: Great Beast, which was founded by Adam Cadwell and...
Angoulême 2013 Prize selections announced
The picks for the Angoulême 2013: Official Selection have been announced; as widely noted, the lists in recent years are much more populist—THE WALKING...
Elsewhere in the world: Song to the Siren
Cartoonist Asaf Hanuka on the recent bombing in Tel Aviv, where he lives..
90 seconds is the time you have once the siren starts...
MCM expands UK events with first Scotland Comic Con and more in Brum
Via PR, MCM, which runs the huge MCM Expo and Memorabilia pop culture shows in the UK, is expanding to Scotland Comic Con next...
To Do: Comica rages in London all month
We like our Comic-Con, and our TCAF and all the other great North American comics extravaganzas, but only London has a comics festival which...
On the scene: Dundee Comics Day
Dundee Comics Day – in which a mini MorrisonCon occurs in a Scottish city, resulting in secrets spilled, wine aplenty, and the sexiest comics line-up you could hope to meet.
