Annie Goetzinger, a grand dame of French comics has passed away suddenly at the age of 66. NBM’s Terry Nantier, who published two of her books in English, Girl in Dior and Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen, remembers her on his blog: I’m in shock. She looked in perfect health with many more productive years ahead of her, […]
Review: ‘Beautiful Darkness’ team goes to Hell in ‘Satania’
There’s something delightfully old fashioned about Satania, at least at the beginning, and that nod to tradition is what makes the whole experience so thrilling the nostalgia for this kind of adventure tale is slowly peeled away to reveal something more mysterious and terrifying. Completely different in tone than Fabian Vehlmann and Kerascoet’s previous achievement, […]
Interview: Famed Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca talks about history, memory and dreams
In recent years, Paco Roca has established himself as one of the bright lights of Spanish cartooning and the world. Perhaps best known for his 2007 graphic novel Wrinkles about a group of elderly residents in a home that deals in beautiful and heartbreaking ways with dementia and other issues.
Review: Cyril Pedrosa captures the hidden human web in Equinoxes
The girth of Cyril Pedrosa’s Equinoxes — 336 pages — implies narrative complication, but what unfolds is really as simple as the title suggests. An equinox is a matter of universal symmetry, of darkness and light being equal. The book is divided into four sections, each designated by one of the seasons, which divide up […]
INTERVIEW: Annie Goetzinger Reveals the Haunting Truths (and Fables) of Marie Antoinette
by Alex Dueben Annie Goetzinger has had a long successful career as a comics artist in France, but she was largely unknown in the United States until NBM published Girl in Dior last year, which was a success here just as it was in France. The publisher just released another book co-written and illustrated by […]
MoCCA Debuts from BIrdcage Bottom Books to Youth in Decline
It’s time for our annual look at some of the comics coming out for this weekend’s MoCCA Festival, being held this year at Center 548, is located at 548 W. 22nd Street, just off the Westside Highway, with programming at the High Line Hotel on West 20th Street and 10th Avenue. And here’s the books […]
ComicsPRO: Papercutz teaming with Nickelodeon for Breadwinners and Sanjay and Craig
Or at least that’s what we got out of these extremely not hard to figure out teaser images:
NBM to Publish Enki Bilal’s Phantoms of the Louvre
For a few years, top European cartoonists have been creating a special series of graphic novels done in conjunction with the Louvre Museum in Paris, all dealing with various aspects of this great institution. NBM has been publishing them here, and the latest is Phantoms of the Louvre by Enki Bilal. It’s a series of […]
SDCC ’13: Comic-Con In Booth Signing Schedules—from Archie to Zenescope — UPDATE
Here’s a list of the creators and artists signing at individual booths — we’ll update it as we go so please send us updates.
NBM announces return of Omaha the Cat Dancer, more P. Craig Russell collections
NBM has announced their releases for the rest of the year and into 2014 and if you like P. Craig Russell’s opera and fairy tale adaptation, you are in luck: they have several collections in the hopper. Also, the return of Omaha the Cat Dancer, a fondly remembered erotic comic from the 80s which has […]