Korean directors team for La Transperceneige
Bande Dessinee aren't just for kids any more! And they are hot in Korea, where horror superstar directors Bong Joon-Ho (The Host) and Park...
Peter Kuper in Oaxaca — UPDATED
UPDATE, Monday 10/30: Peter Kuper sent out the following update today:
Sad to say it seems to be getting worse as of this morning but...
Filipino comics in the news
Continuing our trip through the vaults, we found this picture of the late Alfredo Alcala, Phil Yeh and The Beat at a 1994 signing...
Around the world of comics
§ Jewish Week examines how Batman embodies Jewish values as explained by Rabbi Cary Freidman:
Friedman argues that Batman instills in his audience some of...
Israeli comics
The Jewish Quarterly offers a very long and thoughtful examination of the works of Actus Tragicus, Etgar Keret and the Hanukas:
It is often at...
More on CORTO MALTESE – UPDATE
We had a brief conversation this afternoon with Howard Jurofsky of Heavy Metal. He says that they will be publishing the first CORTO MALTESE...
Come to Sonny Trinidad!
A tribute to Filipino Comics by the legendary Sonny Trinidad, you can bid on this here.
Iranian cartoonist wins Serbian award
Comics bring the world together:
An Iranian cartoonist won the second award of the Belgrade "Golden Smile" Cartoon competition in Serbia.The Iranian cartoonist, Shahrokh Heydari...
The greatest comic book ever for today
We've been spending an INORDINATE amount of time over at the TCJ.com board this week, but it must have been because we were subconsciously...
Cartoonists go to UN
At this weekend's SPX we had some fun calling the main panel room "The UN," and indeed the attendees had a grand time making...
Sfar and Trondheim leave L’Association
Tom translates a French article reporting on departure of two of the founding members of the groundbreaking alternative art collective.
Stepping in to say...
Bart Beaty on Euro-comics malaise
Has the European comics scene, long the idol of US comics elitists jumped the shark? Bart Beaty examines the issue at The Comics Reporter:
After...
