Actual comic book person meets Obama
While guest appearances in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and SAVAGE DRAGON, among many other comics, helped President Obama become as sure-fire a sales enhancement as a...
London Book Fair 2010 – Comics news
Although clouds of volcanic ash kept most Americans away from the London Book Fair this week, the locals battled their way through, and there...
Adèle Blanc-Sec — the movie
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Luc Besson has directed a flim version of Jacques Tardi's great comics heroine, Adéle Blanc-Sec, a sort of one woman BPRD of Steampunk....
These aren't your dad's horny Manara X-women
CBR has a piece on "X-Women", the X-comic written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Italian eroto-comics master Milo Manara.
For his part though,...
Festival Imagé to spotlight French/US comics and animation
From April 16-24, the Alliance Francaise de Washington and the Maryland Institute College of Arts are partnering on Festival Imagé, a series of workshops,...
TCAF early announcements
The eagerly awaited Toronto Comic Arts Festival hits May 8-9 and early information on the show is coming out. Headlining guests include Daniel Clowes,...
Things to do in Brussels: Moomin exhibit
Comics historian and publisher Paul Gravett writes to alert us to a Belgian exhibit of art by Tove Jannson:
Popularised around the world through...
Foreign MAD
On his blog, cartoonist Sam Henderson looks at some foreign editions of MAD Magazine. Some things do translate, and a finger is one of...
SWEDISH INVASION video may rock your world
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In April, Top Shelf publishes three graphic novels out of Sweden, and this trailer is definitely the bomb. It stars a guy named Errki...
Angoulême wrap-up: Baru wins Grand Prix
The Angoulême comics festival wrapped up over the weekend, with the Grand Prix being presented to Baru, a well-respected French cartoonist whose genre-spanning career...
Taschen’s comics beginnings in 1980
As Paul Pope alluded to in the comments, Taschen Books, the art book publisher whose sale we were just telling you about, actually started...
Guy who controls Tintin is very controlling
Nick Rodwell is a lawyer and the second husband of Fanny, the widow of Hergé, the world-famous creator of comics icon Tintin. As such,...
