Tag: angoulême

  Bonjour from Angoulême. A few naps and some bad wifi since last we spoke but things are humming here. As at most cons, Saturday...

We continue our week of European comic goodness with more from Statix Press: Titan Comic's new imprint that's working to translate the best strips...

Today we shine our Statix spotlight on Alisik: a ghostly series about life after death.

The Fauves, the official awards of the Angoulême Comics Festival were handed out over the weekend and there was no mockery or satire, only...

The annual Angouleme comics festival is taking place RIGHT NOW, and sadly for comics news website traffic, unlike last year's disaster, things are progressing...

Halfway into a pleasant Oakland morning I met up up with Jason Shiga in his family home. At a nearby cafe, we talked about...

§ Nice art: Mary Blair  -- I was looking up something for an email question and found this scan of Mary Blair's Cinderella picture book.  Blair,...

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.

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...

An interview with the winners of this year's Prix de la Serie at Angoulême

§ Norm Breyfogle suffered a stroke on December 17th, but he's making great progress, as shown in this video; his fundraiser to help with...

It will be a very difficult Angouleme comics festival they year, as the French comics world—and the entire world—deals with the senseless death of five...