Alors! Florence Cestac says Franck Bondoux is “un crétin total.”
Whooooo-ah! This whole Angoulême-gate thing got out of hand FAST. In just 24 hours it went from an angry petition to the world's best cartoonists rejecting their nominations to front page news to the festival sulkily added Marjane Satrapi and Posy Simmonds to their list, even though no one would vote for them, and a whirlwind of hot takes.
The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 2: Previews and News galore
Here's the second part of our annual creator survey, and this time out we have some exclusive peeks at some new projects for 2016, as well as what might be hit of something cool to happen...but you'll have to read everything figure out what that is.
Thanks to all for taking the time to participate in this survey especially during the busy holiday time. You can find Part 1 here.
FiBD grudgingly to add names to Grand Prix nominee list
It seems that the Festival of Comics of Angoulême is grudgingly going to add more names to it's Grand Prix list after a growing...
Sattouf, Clowes, Burns, Davodeau and Sfar and even MIlo Manara withdraw from Grand Prix...
As reported yesterday, there has been international consternation over the 016 list of nominees for the Grand Prix, the lifetime achievement awards for cartoonists...
Marvel’s Sana Amanat to appear on Late Night with Seth Meyers tonight
If you were wondering who the Face of Comics 2016 is, how about Sana Amanat, Marvel's Director of Content and Character Development. In addition...
Call for boycott of Angoulême’s Grand Prix nominees after list includes only men
The long list for the 2016 Grand Prix at Angoulême was announced today—this is a kind of lifetime achivemenet award, and arguably the greatest honor...
FIGHT! Tony Isabella vs Best American Comics, Heidi MacDonald and Derf Backderf
Please note the "FIGHT!" title is a joke—Tony is a wonderful human being, and we're just having a good old fashioned argument, like friends do. But this is the internet and we must ratchet up the appearance of conflict so....
UPDATED: What is Hasbro’s problem: no Rey in Force Awakens Monopoly
Update: I've written to Hasbro reps several times about these issues and never gotten an answer, however when Entertainment Weekly writes, they DO respond...
Daniel Clowes is going on tour for “Patience”
Daniel Clowes new graphic novel Patience drops in late winter and it's sure to be the comic book event of the first half of...
Twitter bans indie cartoonist who fought back against abusive tweets
UPDATE: Gfrorer's account has been reinstated but I'll leave this up as a cautionary tale.
Twitter has had a harassment problem for a long time....
Ariell R. Johnson: “Sometimes we want to be the hero, too.”
Based on the astounding social media attention to my last post about Ariell R. Johnson and her Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse in Philadelphia, it seems you want more Ariell. So I am very happy to oblige with the above video of Johnson talking at the Ignite Philly event last fall. Johnson talks about her own life as a nerd, who was the black Thundercat and her discovery of Storm, the first black superheroine she encountered: "When I found out about Storm I gripped on tight to her and never let her go."
Gene Yang named Library of Congress’s Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Gene Luen Yang has racked up a lot of honors for his work—first graphic novel to be shortlisted for a National Book Award (for...
