Tag: world comics

The other day we posted a heartbreaking strip called "What a Wonderful World" by Zep featuring Titeuf, the Bart Simpson of France, in a storyline that echoes the refugee crisis now affecting Europe. Thousands...

In the French speaking world, a character known as Titeuf is as well known as Bart Simpson or Dennis the Menace here. He's a mischievous 8-year-old with a huge cowlick, created by the Swiss...

A new French language website called BD Egalite (more or less "comics equality") has launched to address rampant sexism in the French comics market. The charter has been posted in English with a few...

Although this year's Small Press Expo's theme is "Cartoonists of the 21st Century," they are allowing cartoonists older than 30 to be guests as well. Just announced, the international slate, which consists of Frederik...

This post is purely for Porter Airlines fetishists who enjoy that portion of their trip to TCAF every year. Those of you who take Porter Airlines know that as delightful as are the low...

Centrala is a Polish indie comics publisher that recently opened a London office, which s helping their books get wider distribution. They have three new books including what sounds like an intriguing tale about two German police officers who join the Klan to make friends and meet girls, an anthology mixing comics and cooking and a book adapting a famous Polish poem about a train into a 60 foot long comic! Eastern European comics are usually thought of as an "emerging" scene, but with publishers like Centrala and the Latvian kuš! collective getting notice, they've emerged quite a bit. Here's the Centrala books, which are all available for order.

Magnetic Press launched last year with an audacious business plan: bringing French graphic novels to the US market. While French materials has had its ups and downs in the US, Magnetic has been at...

The Comixology-Delcourt team-up to bring some of the finest French language comics to the English speaking world via digital is just the start. Europe Comics is another digital initiative, this one launched by Mediatoons,...

We just told you about the huge deal between French comics publisher Delcourt and Comixology to being a line of French comics to English via digital. Now here's one example of why it's big, an exclusive preview of the English language version of Pénélope Bagieu's Josephine. Bagieu is hugely popular in France for her down to earth comics about contemporary life. Her Exquisite Corpse was just published earlier this year by First Second; Josephine is her long running comic about a young woman with the usual complicated and annoying life—at least one of the strips below describes just about every day of my life, but I'll let you guess which.

What better way to celebrate the Beat's 11th anniversary than with a preview of one of our all time favorite comics, Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt, now being reprinted in lovely English language editions...

Woot, now this is cool. The amazing artists Bengal and Tony Sandoval will be appearing at the Magnetic Press Booth (#5534) and many cool books will be on display. In case you've missed it, Magnetic has turned out some of the best looking books over the last year—Love The Tiger to name just one—and this booth is well worth checking out. Deets:  

Beat correspondent Serhend Sirkecioglu travels from Turkey to Kazakhstan in search of the Turkic world's comics culture— and he finds it in this groundbreaking report!