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Cartoonist call for a boycott of Sodastream as a sponsor at Angouleme...an atrist is in danger of losing his sight to diabetes...Dreamworks and Egmont are shutting things down...and more.

The Charlie Hebdo murders, and the subsequent shoot outs and man hunts, have led to an unprecedented discussion over the role of satire, art...

January 7th, 2015 will always be a grim date in for free speech, tolerance and French cartooning. As we all know, 12 people, including 10 staffers and four cartoonists were killed in a terrorist attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo yesterday morning. The attack—which some called the 9/11 for France—left grieving and reeling for those lost and for a world in which such a senseless act could occur. The four cartoonists killed—Georges Wolinski, Charb, Tignous, and Cabu—included one Angouleme Grand Prize winner, Wolinski, who won in 2005. It was a grievous toll.

Yep it's part three of our annual look at the year coming and going. My trip to Angouleme in 2014 enabled me to add more international participants to the survey, so look for some perspective the global comics business and even a wee Joann Sfar preview in the answers below. Part One and Part Two of the survey can be found here.

I suspect that I'm not alone in thinking any day that brings new work from Dr Bryan Talbot is a very good day indeed....

Some rambling thoughts on various aspects of making comics and making money. I alluded earlier to the sudden announcement that Nonplayer #2 by Nate Simpson was finished and would be presumably be coming out later this year. Simpson has written a much longer piece complete with a FAQ confirming that the issue will be in the May solicitations from Image; he's contacted Image about reprinting issue #1 but no response yet, and Warners—which had optioned the comic—has let their rights lapse, so it's there for the taking. And then he gets to why it took 3 1/2 years to draw the comic. It's a long answer but I'll lift a graph:

§ Congrats to Fantagraphics publisher Gary Groth for winning the Stranger's Genius Award for Literature. Many would say Gary is strange, many a genius...

Every two years, the city of Erlangen, Germany hosts the Erlangen Comics Salon. In a nutshell, it's the German version of Angoulême.  It's not as...

It is generally accepted among those who have been to both that European comics festivals are superior to US comic-cons in the respect paid...

Last week there was some intrigue over whether some guest strips on Stephen Pastis's Pearls Before Swine comic strip were actually drawn...

Magnetic Press continues its mission to bring a bunch of great looking French comics to the US with announcement they'll b publishing Tony Sandoval's...

§ Zen Pencils is a website where a cartoonist named Gavin Aung Than takes famous speeches written by other folks and turns them into comics. It was the subject of a famous beatdown by Abhay Khosla who tagged it as vapid pap that stole other people's thoughts, and some other folks think it's just fine and signed it to a book deal. Perhaps Than was stung by some of the haters because he just penned his first ORIGINAL cartoon, called "The Artist-Troll War" and it is a bit...on the nose. It is in four parts;