A busy day for ReedPOP PR! Besides announcing the team up with the Lyte ticket exchange, they’ve also announced that Florida Supercon will be joining the ReedPOP family of shows and that Comic Con Cape Town will join their slate of African shows in 2020. You can read bits of the Supercon PR below – […]
Kuo-yu Liang leaves Diamond for ReedPOP
Comings and goings at ReedPOP nad Diamond.
Titan announces Statix Press imprint for Euro comics
Comics are still here and fighting and Titan Comics is going in with a NEW imprint: Statix Press, which will present European comics in English language editions. The line will include such classics as Philippe Druillet’s Lone Sloane, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’ Showman Killer, and new titles. Statix Press will also be the home for Titan’s back catalogue of translated […]
More on The Future of Comics: the rise of Valerian and comics at ALA
I got quite a response to my rant on the ascent of graphic novels and and decline of the periodical that ran last week. While I felt constrained not to leak to much of the BookScan reports, one commenter felt no such compunction and posted LAST week’s top 20 (And the complete top 20 for […]
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.
Interview: Asaf Hanuka balances life and terror in The Realist: Plug and Play
Asaf Hanuka’s webcomic The Realist has been running for years with a mix of withering self deprecation, family foibles and the occasional dark realities of life in Tel Aviv. As caustic as it can be, it’s also a humane and insightful look at how we process life internally and externally. It’s also funny as hell and […]
Money Matters Must Read: The Salary of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Sonny Liew’s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye is already a classic in his native Singapore, as the first graphic novel to win a major literary award, and its one of the most startling and original graphic novels of the year anywhere. Displaying cartooning skills, vision and a sense of Singapore history, it’s the equivalent […]
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is here, and its jammed
TCAF is here! The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is a huge highlight of the North American comics schedule, and this year’s show has an amazing stellar guest list of cartoonists from around the world and is expanding with a new venue, the Masonic Temple just for you Invisibles Fans. While the TCAF website has […]
Review: Baltic anthology š! #23 offers big art in a small package
The Balkan comics anthology š! from kuš! is one of the more challenging delights of the comics world, grafting the sensibility of a contemporary art gallery onto the comics page. It regularly presents challenging and edgy work, often abstract, but with enough show of personality that you can see these are the works of real humans, and it comes in a striking mini-digest format that evokes Little Big Books, adding to its appeal as an object to display.
24 Hours of International Comics: The New Asterix Album Is Announced!
Here’s another discovery I found while researching German comics publishers yesterday… The title of the new Asterix album, the second since Albert Uderzo retired, was announced at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Tuesday! The title of #Album36 is … pic.twitter.com/afdYAfFHU0 — Astérix (@asterixofficiel) March 31, 2015 22 October 2015 is the announced release date, but […]