Tag: 24 Hours of International Comics

In case you missed it, we had a celebration of comics around the world on Friday with Beat staffers posting their thoughts on all kinds of comics, from manga to webcomics to British comics...

by Zachary Clemente 24 Hours of International Comics continue and, for me, it's been leading up to this: A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori. There's nothing I so vehemently recommend to anyone and everyone like this beautiful...

Dreamy, symbolic, curious, and strange. Pablo by Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie is ostensibly the story of Pablo Picasso, a man, a modern artist, and an icon of the 20th century. But it’s a story told from the point of view of Fernande Olivier, also known as Amélie Lang, also known as Madame Paul Percheron, also known as the subject of more than 60 portraits made by Picasso.

By and large, American comics are exercises in external action.  Rare is the superhero who ends up blighted by some existential crisis and is then forced to retreat into his or herself in order...

The Beat takes a look at Japan with the manga Solanin during their 24 Hours of International Comics.

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"Sandman Overture" By Nick Eskey Okay, perhaps not a British comic, but seeing as “Sandman” was written by a British man, and is in English, its good enough for me. Outside of the comic spectrum, Neil Gaiman...

Guten Tag! Germany... it's a bit of a conundrum in Continental comics. Smack dab in the middle of Europe, it gets a lot of comics imported from other countries, mostly from neighboring Belgium and France.  It...

Best known in the US for writing Beautiful Darkness, Fabien Vehlmann is a superstar writer in France, working on some of the best known characters while winning numerous awards, and even writing the occasional movie. Here's a brief look at some of his work available in English.

By Victor Van Scoit Usually when you find a web comic it doesn't have the vision and scope of Run Freak Run. I can't recall when I found it - only that I did. Run...