The weekend: Mid-Ohio, Brum Con
Quite a busy weekend for comics-related group activities: FallCon, Mid-Ohio, and the Birmingham International Comics Show all took place, in addition to SPX.
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Sergio Toppi art exhibit
Prolific Italian comics legend Sergio Toppi is having an art show of his illustrations. The show opens this Saturday, 9/27, at Rome's...
World comics news roundup
§ In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, innocent teens are at risk from racy comics, in a news story inexplicably illustrated with UNDERSTANDING...
Japan to get manga-lovin’ PM?
What with Yasuo Fukuda's abrupt resignation this weekend, it looks like long-waiting-in-the-wings Taro Aso might finally get a shot, and finally a world power...
NO HEROICS trailer
http://www.youtube.com/v/w3zpMTKvvgk&hl=en&fs=1
NO HEROICS is a new British sitcom about a bar where out of costume superheroes hang out. It's written by a fellow named Drew...
Brum comic teaches smuggling
Did you know comics can be used as an educational tool? It's true! Look at this moderately headlined story from the UK, for...
Novel about older Tintin creates controversy
A Spanish illustrated novel called "The Pink Lotus" by Antonio Altarriba, depicting the older years of Tintin as a dissolute, womanizing journalist, has been...
Bryan Talbot’s GRANDVILLE
Following his surprise hit, genre-busting ALICE IN SUNDERLAND, Bryan Talbot is getting back to basics with his work in progress GRANDVILLE, which he...
Wright Awards controversy
You may have noticed Hervé St-Louis kicking up a fuss in our comments section regarding the Doug Wright Awards -- the bone of...
2008 Doug Wright Award winners
The Doug Wright Awards for achievements in Canadian comic book artistry were presented this weekend and the winners are:
Best Book:
The Magical Life of Long...
Manga news roundup; Tpop and Gentosha pact
ComiPress has an exhaustive guide to all the manga-related SD doings. Simon Jones has a guide to the guide. Among the interesting tiddle taddle-bits:...
I was finally on NPR
...in a piece on foreign graphic novels:
Americans don't buy a lot of foreign novels, but go to any neighborhood bookstore and you'll find whole...
