Tag: world comics
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye wins Singapore Literature Prize
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, Sonny Liew's incredible history of Singapore told through an invented comics history, has become the first graphic...
Spanish Fever hits SPX with five guests from Spain
This year's SPX already has a top notch guest list, but here's an added bonus: five of the most exciting Spanish indie cartoonists, Santiago García, Ana Galvañ, David...
Weekend reading and preview: The Solar Grid by Ganzeer is a dark, thought provoking...
Fans of Vertigo Comics and Image Comics recent turn to intelligent SF, here's another comic you should be checking out: The Solar Grid by...
Europe Comics and Cinebook come to ComiXology
If you've been craving more amazing Euro-comix in your life. Comixology just made that dream come true. Europe Comics, the collective of French language publishers, and the much-under appreciated Cinebooks, are debuting today on the Comixology platform. You can see the lineup below and there's some gold in there, both classic and contemporary, from Spirou to The Survivors to XIII.
Step into The Jodoverse with this affordable collection
Alexandro Jodorowsky is one of comics' original crossover artists. An internationally acclaimed experimental filmmaker and novelist, he's used comics as his chosen medium for...
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...
Van Jensen named first ever Comic Book Ambassador of the United States
Here is a thing Donald Trump could not stop: the US has an actual Comic Book Ambassador, and that person is writer Van Jensen,...
Rokudenashiko, the vagina kayak artist, is fined ¥400,000 for obscenity
We've been telling you about the legal woes of Japanese artist Rokudenashiko for a while now. She was convicted of obscenity for selling prints of a 3D scan of her intimate area but had not been sentenced. Now, just a few days before her appearance at TCAF, she's been fined ¥400,000 by a Tokyo Court, about US$3717.
Report: Jailed Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani to be freed next month
In a world where cartoonists and other artists are often on the front line of social change, they unfortunately also sometimes pay a price...
French publishers threaten to start their own festival as Minister of Culture agrees to...
L'Affaire de Angoulême continues and will not stop. As we reported yesterday, 40 French publishers — basically all the important players in France— have...
French publishers announce boycott of Angoulême after disastrous 2016 festival
The Angoulême Comics Festival is supposed to be the crowning event of the comics world, a festival that celebrates the art of the medium...
US publisher goes on shopping spree at Angoulême
I promised I would have only ONE MORE post on Angoulême and here it is! Calvin Reid went to this year fest and has...