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...
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...
If you’re on your way to MoCCA
Make sure you check out the Scandinavian comics on the 7th floor. Each country has its own Kramer's Ergot, and there are several comics...
Canadian comics history
Canadians! They walk among us unnoticed but what are they really planning? And do they really have a Comics "heritage"? According to this Literary...
DC Invests in Japanese Manga Startup
Via PW, news that DC has invested in Flex Comics a new print, web and mobile phone manga publisher, as part of DC...
EU parliament refuses Eisner’s THE PLOT
TheEU parliament has refused delivery of Will Eisner's THE PLOT a graphic novel discussing the long running anti-Semitic tract "The Protocols of the...
Shocking PORN STAR and PUNISHER rattle Singapore –UPDATE
Mothers react with shock to the discovery of a copy of HOW TO MAKE MONEY LIKE A PORN STAR buried among the legit children's...
More from Toronto
Sequential has a full round-up of links, but here are some highlights:
BlogTO looks at the Women of Comics symposium:
Through a series of panels, and...
Toronto Pix
Our spies on the Ground, Trish Mulvihill and Elim Mak, have sent us some pictures of this weekend's Toronto Paradise Comicon. A few of...
PRoN frolic with children’s books causes ruckus in Singapore
It seems that a copy of HOW TO MAKE MONEY LIKE A PORN STAR, the controversial graphic novel by Neil Strass and Bernard Chang,...
