Tag: charlie hebdo

    § I got a bath bomb for Christmas and wondered if I should take one of those fancy baths with wine and candles and a book. This idea has never appealed to me since...

"Syria is a complex country. Before the war it was a modern country, but an extremely corrupt country. Like all the Arab countries. Like all countries."

For the last month, the French Comics Association has been hosting events around New York City as part of their inaugural "French Comics Framed," which celebrates francophone comics and cartoonists.  One of the final...

What will you be wearing on Thursday night at 6:30pm? The answer could reveal where you stand on the theme of Heidi's latest SDCC Comics Journalism panel, "It's About Ethics in Comics Journalism." If you've...

Graphic novels have a lot more prizes than they once did, including literary awards that help validate the medium. Awards season is well upon us, and I've been way behind in noting some of the most important.

And another event, this one a screening of a documentary about one of Charlie Hebdo's earlier controversies followed by a talk with Art Spigelman and Francoise Mouly: With TOUGH BEING LOVED BY JERKS, director Daniel Leconte...

A few notes on Charlie Hebdo related matters, aside from the ongoing sorrow and tumult. Josselin Moneyron has a very fine analysis of the past year's covers in terms of how much they mock religions and their satirical intent. Suffice to say that a lot of the satire goes right over non-French people's heads. Of course satire that localized is easy to misinterpret or interpret according to local standards. It's complicated.

Brought to you by Publishers Weekly, it's More To Come, the weekly podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons and The Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald. In this week's podcast, the...

The Charlie Hebdo murders, and the subsequent shoot outs and man hunts, have led to an unprecedented discussion over the role of satire, art and cartooning. It is also, of course, a horrific event...

By Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson If I had my druthers I would mostly live in a Jane Austen world. I say mostly because of course it would be necessary to be wealthy and male, from a proper upper class family with good social standing and white goes without saying. I prefer gentility, good manners and pleasant behavior. I don’t like crass, vulgar, adolescent immature anything. So what am I doing in the world of comics?

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 cartoonists. I'm told the festival is planning a memorial and...

Sacred and Sequential, a group of scholars who study the intersection of religion and comics has released a statement on Wednesday's still reverberating attack on the officer of Charlie Hebo that left 12 dead....