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...
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...
