Wacky Spanish comics crossover
Spanish artist elpablo wonder what Prince Valiant would look like if Charles Schulz drew it.
'Tooner Pepo comes back and wonders what Peanuts would look like if Hal Foster drew it.
Racist Tintin a bestseller
We're not quite sure what this says about human nature, but since news hit of Herge's early work TINTIN IN THE CONGO getting removed from children's sections in the UK due to its racist...
College of Quaestors reconsiders Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Oyez! Oyez! For many long years we have much desir'd to write just such a headline, and now a golden opportunity has arrived. Lux Fortuna!
Okay in modern terms, this all began when Belgian...
Tintin racism too adult for tots
Tintin in the Congo, which has often been panned for Herge's neo-colonialist attitude, has been removed from the children's section of Borders stores in the UK due to the supposed racist content.
The...
France invaded by “mangas” fans
Some 80,000 French Japanophiles attended a recent Asian pop culture expo it's being reported.
The annual expo - which drew only 3,000 visitors when it launched in 1999 - was a runaway success, organiser...
Saudi woman cartoonist art exhibit
Arab News reports on an art show by Hana Hajjar:
Bravely breaking into a field that is considered to be male dominated not only in Saudi Arabia but also all over the world, 27-year-old Arab...
Cartoonists travel the world: Dysart, Goldman
Writer Joshua Dysart (MAKE % WISHES!) goes to Uganda. It is not a paradise:
Just five days before I'd been on the back of a motorcycle traveling through up-country Uganda, not far from the Sudan...
2007 Doug Wright Award nominees
Nominees for the 2007 Doug Wright Awards honoring the best in Canadian comics, have been announced:
Best BookShenzen: A Travelogue From China, Guy Delisle (Drawn and Quarterly)This Will All End in Tears, Joe Ollman (Insomniac...
Ali Farzat interviewed
The Arabic edition of NEWSWEEK interviews Syrian political cartoonist Ali Farzat, whose stinging cartoons caused the Syrian government to close down his magazine in 2003. The BBC is now looking to animate some of...
Notable quotables
§ Tintin Pantoja goes to a comicon in INDONESIA!:
Since I couldn't attend MoCCA this year, I dropped by an Indonesian analogue- KONDEFEST- this weekend. It was a loose conglomeration of thatched kiosks in a...
PERSEPOLIS film removed in Thailand
Thai officials have cancelled a screening of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis after complaints from the Iranian Embassy:
The Bangkok International Film Festival has dropped the Cannes prize-winning animated movie "Persepolis" which had been skedded as new-look...
Teshkeel on FRONTLINE
The 99, and Teshkeel publishing, the Arab-themed comics line, will be on the PBS documentary series FRONTLINE tonight, according to a letter from Teshkeel's Naif Al-Mutawa:
About year ago, an award winning filmmaker, Isaac Solotaroff...
