Angoulême Prize nominees
We'd been looking around for a list of this year's Angoulëme Prize nominees, but no such list seems to exist in English save this...
Smurfs are 50 — let’s party!
The Smurfs - - Peyo's lovable little blue imps -- are turning 50 this year, and it's going to be a worldwide celebration!
Their debut...
Tintin as you’ve never seen him before
http://www.youtube.com/v/LLqobpZluKk&rel=1
This is actually part 14 of"Teesside Tin Tin - 14" a YouTube extravaganza which dubs an episode of the Tintin cartoon with Middlesborough style...
UN and Spidey join forces
This news couldn't come on a more inappropriate day, as the world seems more senseless than ever, but perhaps a comic book teaming Spidey...
Serkis is Haddock?
Rumor going round that Andy Serkis will play Captain Haddock in the Tintin film being made by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson.
Serkis is...
Stage Tintin
HERGE'S ADVENTUES OF TINTIN is a stage play based on the Belgian comics hero that's been around a few years, and it's now playing...
Cartoon Network Magazine Arrives in the Middle East
Teshkeel, the Kuwait-based publishing company which has been bringing Middle Eastern comics to both their native terrain and the US, has pacted with the...
Burma bans cartooners
We don't always write about the world-wide war on cartooners because we get too depressed, but this story on the media crackdown in...
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...
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....
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...
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...
