Great moments in comics acceptance
The headline of this UK Observer article would appear to be the beginning of a long awaited graphic novel backlash as literary pundits grow...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
