Israeli comics
The Jewish Quarterly offers a very long and thoughtful examination of the works of Actus Tragicus, Etgar Keret and the Hanukas:
It is often at the margins of a culture that we can uncover the...
More on CORTO MALTESE – UPDATE
We had a brief conversation this afternoon with Howard Jurofsky of Heavy Metal. He says that they will be publishing the first CORTO MALTESE book, THE BALLAD OF THE SALTY SEA, and see how...
Come to Sonny Trinidad!
A tribute to Filipino Comics by the legendary Sonny Trinidad, you can bid on this here.
Iranian cartoonist wins Serbian award
Comics bring the world together:
An Iranian cartoonist won the second award of the Belgrade "Golden Smile" Cartoon competition in Serbia.The Iranian cartoonist, Shahrokh Heydari stood second in the 5th biannual cartoon exhibition of Serbia...
The greatest comic book ever for today
We've been spending an INORDINATE amount of time over at the TCJ.com board this week, but it must have been because we were subconsciously waiting for the news we have been anxiously awaiting each...
Cartoonists go to UN
At this weekend's SPX we had some fun calling the main panel room "The UN," and indeed the attendees had a grand time making paper placards for various countries, adding to the fun. Well...
Sfar and Trondheim leave L’Association
Tom translates a French article reporting on departure of two of the founding members of the groundbreaking alternative art collective.
Stepping in to say these implied reasons are not true is Joann Sfar himself,...
Bart Beaty on Euro-comics malaise
Has the European comics scene, long the idol of US comics elitists jumped the shark? Bart Beaty examines the issue at The Comics Reporter:
After a period of tremendous experimentation and growth in the 1970s,...
Otaku invade Romania!
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OTAKU GO WILD IN BUCHAREST THIS WEEKEND! MULTI-CULTI APOTHEOSIS! 40-year-old virgin gypsies! Carpathian cosplay! If it's half as crayzee as that video, we are so bummed to be missing out.
Prima conventie...
Cartoon trouble in Malta
Yet another cartoonist has run afoul of the local govenment after delivering a sharp visual mocking. This time it's in Malta and the offending cartoonist is Maurice Tanti Burlò:
Their press statement called for...
Holocaust ‘toon exhibit flops in Tehran
Over in Iran, where cartoons aren't just a passtime, they're a matter of life and death, an exhibit of cartoons making sport of The Holocaust has been a "flop" according to the Independent. Apparently...
Iranian editor acquitted in cartoon cockroach flap
Justice turns swiftly in Iran, it seems, as the managing editor of the Iranian newspaper that in May ran a cartoon insulting to the Azeri ethnic minority, has been acquitted:
The state-owned newspaper âIranâ? was...
