World Comics

Hard as it is to believe there is more of a comics/footie connection than just Roy of the Rovers -- although who really needs more than Roy of the Rovers? We thought we'd see more World Cup comics art around but we forgot nerds aren't into sports.

Yesterday video and photographic evidence of the Smurfs movie was released, and we're glad to see that New York City, the Beat's hometown, is once again the setting for the deeply profound story of alien-in-America and what we can learn about ourselves and others, especially when the others are small and blue.

Okay, it's just a reprint: It will rekindle fond memories for those who grew up with the greatest footballer who never lived - and will...

Dealer Robert Beerbohm appears to have found a copy of a French comic book from either 1844 or 1856, called The History of Mr. Tuberculus.

The biggest event in the world, The World Cup is kicking off today and we'll kick off our link blogging with Richard Bruton's tribute to Roy of the Rovers , which, based on the squeal FMB gave when a Roy collection arrived on our doorstep, is some kind of seminal kids footie comic. Bruton concentrates on the "Dark Knight" of Roy comics, a 1994 version by Rob Davis and Stuart Green:

Saturday saw the presentation of the 6th Annual Joe Shuster Awards, honoring the finest in Canadian comics. And the winners are: Artist/Dessinateur * Stuart Immonen –...

Hank Azaria was surreptitiously filmed in his role as Gargamel in the upcoming Smurfs movie, and as you can see, it is a chilling portrayal of ultimate evil that will scar our nightmares. Actually, it is quite terrifying.

Speaking of D&Q, they just showed off a new book called Eden by a Argentinian cartoonist, Pablo Holmberg, a.k.a Kioskerman.

The Eagle Awards, the British comics honors which are voted and chosen by the fans, have just been announced. It's a good year for...

Spanish agent/translator David Macho Gomez has just launched his long-threatened website for his stable of artists, spanishinq.com. It's no secret that Spanish artists have made a huge impression in the American comics scene over the last decade or so, and thanks to this website you can peruse galleries of work by artists like

As the featured event of the 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), which is being held at the Toronto Reference Library, the evening also featured a moving tribute to pioneering Canadian cartoonist Martin Vaughn-James, who was posthumously inducted into The Giants of the North, The Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame, in a talk delivered by cartoonist Kate Beaton. The winners were decided by a jury comprised of Matt Forsythe (editor of Drawn.ca, winner of the 2009 Pigskin Peters Award for Ojingogo), Geoff Pevere (Toronto Star book critic; author of Mondo Canuck,) Fiona Smyth (artist; cartoonist) and Carl Wilson (editor/writer Globe and Mail, author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste). Speaking on behalf of the jury, Pevere praised the Best Book winner George Sprott as "a portrait of a character, of a country…a country that is no longer with us," adding that: ...Speaking for Wright Awards nominating committee, which chooses the annual Pigskin Peters Award, Matt Forsythe described Hot Potatoe as "a collection of seven years of work that is insulting and hilarious and sarcastic and sincere," and continued that it has "influenced a whole wave of comics and artists – myself included."

While some comic companies may be shutting down websites that post their comics illegally, Moulinsart, the company which owns the rights to Hergé's work,...