Angoulême dispatches
The Angoulême International Comics Festival, the biggest most amazing comics-themed gathering of the year, is well underway in France, and if a bomb was...
Legal Danger: Comics in Britain!
Comics fans fear that two new British anti-pornography laws 'could make comic books illegal'. The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act would make possessing...
Comics about the Louvre in the Louvre
(AP Photo by Thibault Camus)
As previously reported, Paris's famed Louvre museum is now housing an exhibition featuring comic books by some of the world's...
You should be reading ROCKY
One comics genre that only old-timers talk about is "funny animals," and it concerns the foibles and fantasies of humans beings thrown into relief...
TCAF announcements
This official press release brings together all known facts about this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and if the names "Guibert" and "Tatsumi" mean...
Shuster Award blog updated
Canadians! They look just like us. They act very much like us. But they are not us. They are Canadians. You may find this...
The Simpsons are people in Australia
In a controversial decision, an Australian judge has ruled that a man with a pornographic drawing of the Simpsons on his computer is guilty...
RIP: Gérard Lauzier
Numerous French-language outlets are reporting the death of Gérard Lauzier, a very well-known cartoonist/satirist who later had even greater success as a film...
Can Chinese comics sell in France?
ComiPress translates a long Chinese brief on The Future of China's Comics Market in France. As if that topic weren't interesting enough on its...
Christmas comic covers
Let's get into the holiday spirit! Brit cartoonist Lew Stringer has a blog, and he's posting old Christmas covers like this one from...
Sfar to direct GAINSBOURG
Acclaimed French cartoonist Joann Sfar (The Rabbi's Cat, The Professor's Daughter, Little Vampire) is set to write and direct a biopic about French singer...
Cartoonists doing things
Too much talent #1: Joel Meadows catches Posy Simmonds and Art Spiegelman in the same place in this photo post. Guest appearance by Matt...
