It looks so smart when it’s in French
Via The Forbidden Planet International Blog, information on the "Official Selections" for Angouleme '08.
Next to the Official Selection (of which a full list and annotations can be found here in French and here in...
Max wins Spanish cultural award
According to this article and Google, the Spanish Ministry of Culture has just presented their first award for comics, to Max for Bardin Superrealist. Awards have been presented in other literary and artistic categories...
Drunk in Dublin
The Millarworld thread on the Dublin City Con confirms that everyone drank an AWFUL lot. This Flickr set from Sabrina Peyton confirms that the Mr. T sweater vest was in the house. Was there...
Weekend doings: Wizard World Texas, Big Apple, Dublin
THREE big conventions took place this weekend! Down in Texas, Wizard World Texas made its appointed rounds, although Hero's mechanical bull fund raiser contributed the expected awkward moments. David Hopkins sent us a link...
Egmont US to open
From Publishers Lunch today, announcement of an American arm for Egmont.
Following their discussion in August of plans for a US venture, the UK's largest children's book publisher Egmont has announced current group sales...
Spanish cartoonists GUILTY!
Do you remember the Spanish cartoon controversy?. Of course you do. Two cartooners for the satirical Spanish cartoon magazine El Jueves were accused of making fun of the royal family with a cover which...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits around the world
§ The NY Daily News profiles...Jeffrey Brown?
But there's more than meets the eye when it comes to Brown's comics. His sketchbook-style graphic novels are not all about parodies of eighties cartoons like "The Transformers."...
Posy Simmonds profile
The Telegraph profiles Posy Simmonds, who we are told, is read by millions in the UKm thanks to her long running newspaper strip POSY, and books GEMMA BOVARY and the upcoming TAMARA DREWE.
Posy Simmonds,...
World's oldest cartoonist
A few news outlets have noted the 107th birthday last month of Russian editorial cartoonist Boris Efimov, best known for his biting caricatures of Hitler and other WWII figures. On the occasion of his...
Brum Con roundup
Beat reader Stephen Aryan sends us some linkage to last weekend's second Birmingham comics fest in the UK.
There are a number of roundups about the recent Birmingham comic convention last weekend, I blogged briefly...
World news
Lars Vilks, the man at the center of the Swedish cartoon controversy defends his deliberately provoking Mohammed cartoon
Vilks, who has been a controversial artist for more than three decades in Sweden, says his drawing...
Brum Con II
Aside from SPX, this weekend there's the second Birmingham International Comics Show, in the UK, featuring all the hard-drinking Brit comics folk you would expect to see, and even panels. Tony Lee, who...
