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,...
Chinese nab “French Spiderman” in Shanghai
A daring adventurer who bills himself as Spiderman and attempts to climb the world's most distinctive structures has been detained by Chinese authorities.:
Intrepid climber...
Cannes Watch: Marjane Satrapi at Cannes
Amid international controversy, Marjane Satrapi talks animated PERSEPOLIS at Cannes where it debuted to good reviews the other day.
"I never saw it as...
Studio Briefing 1: Rodriguez + Barbarella = good times
Well, here is a movie that is sure to be tasteful! Robert Rodriguez is set to direct a remake of Barbarella, based on...
Iran now peeved over PERSEPOLIS
It seems Iran's professional political complainers are not just annoyed at hyper-stylized fictional remembrances of 2000-year-old wars, they also dislike cartoon films made from...
France: Tintin doomed to lonely life of celibacy
A wee bit of highly sourced speculation on the earth shattering Spielberg/Jackson announcement: No Love Interest for Tintin:
This according to an anonymous Moulinsart estate...
