Tag: world comics

    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 novel to win the Singapore Literature Prize for English Fiction....

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 Rubín, Javier Olivares and José Domingo, will be appearing, thanks to  funding and...

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 Ganzeer. Ganzeer is an Egyptian muralist and graphic designer who...

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.

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 some of his most powerful stories, including The Incal, The Metabarons,...

  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...

Here is a thing Donald Trump could not stop: the US has an actual Comic Book Ambassador, and that person is writer Van Jensen, who writes of his duties: A thing that is both unbelievable...

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.

In a world where cartoonists and other artists are often on the front line of social change, they unfortunately also sometimes pay a price with harassment, jail time or worse. Even so, the case...

L'Affaire de Angoulême continues and will not stop. As we reported yesterday, 40 French publishers — basically all the important players in France— have said they will boycott the 2017 festival if changes are...

The Angoulême Comics Festival is supposed to be the crowning event of the comics world, a festival that celebrates the art of the medium in an informed and respectful way, a reputation it has...

I promised I would have only ONE MORE post on Angoulême and here it is! Calvin Reid went to this year fest and has his full report for PW, including of course, all...