World Comics

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...

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...

Cartoonist Asaf Hanuka on the recent bombing in Tel Aviv, where he lives.. 90 seconds is the time you have once the siren starts...

Via PR, MCM, which runs the huge MCM Expo and Memorabilia pop culture shows in the UK, is expanding to Scotland Comic Con next...

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...

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.

By Finnish artist Janne Tervamäki. Via Boing Being.

Everyone is linking to Lithuanian artist Akvilė Misevičiūtė because she's awesome, and we're jumping on the bandwagon with her "Potato Story" from Ink+ Paper Magazine.

“How does it feel to be here, surrounded by cats?” The moderator’s already off to an auspicious start, given his (what I believe to have been, given my complete lack of German comprehension) promise not to discuss “why mice, why the holocaust.” It’s the proverbial gorilla in a room full of cats, of course, and while Spiegelman has visited the country a number of times in the past 25 years or so, it seems an odd choice not to discuss it the day before the opening of a retrospective on the cartoonist’s work. And here we are, like clockwork, dipping our toes in the water, the moderator asking how it feels sitting in this room, being, you know, the guy who got famous by writing a comic book about the Holocaust.

France and its overseas postings remain on watch after the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons about the prophet Mohammed yesterday. With the Islamic world already on edge over a mysterious US-made YouTube video, the cartoons were expected to perhaps ignite more violence:

The 2012 Joe Shuster Awards, honoring the best in Canadian comics, were handed out on Saturday, September 15th at the Montreal Comic-Con. Jason Rockman and Catherine Smith-Desbiens handed out the awards--check the link for jury comments on the winners.

Currently at 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. Unlikely but true. For example. Dredd 3D constantly impresses on a visual level, with a gritty style more akin to...