Tag: French comics
Report: French publisher Delcourt enters “exclusive talks” to join the Editis Group
Delcourt has a buyer. France's second largest book publisher Editis has entered talks for a complete acquisition of its third largest comics publisher
Report: French comics publisher Delcourt is up for sale
Delcourt, one of the largest and most respected French comics publishers, is up for sale, Actualitté reports.
CON REPORT: The crowds came out to celebrate fifty years of FIBD at Angoulême...
Crowds were back - and so was controversy - as the Angoulême comics festival returned to its regular time and size for the first time since the pandamic began
Emmanuel Guibert becomes second ever cartoonist to be elected to France’s Academy of Fine...
Emmanuel Guibert becomes the second ever cartoonist to be elected to the centuries-old French Academy of Fine Arts
Europe Comics to shut down consumer-facing operations
Europe Comics has announced that it will be downscaling its operations and moving away from consumer-facing operations
Skybound continues the return of French fighting fantasy series LASTMAN in March 2023
The Skybound remastered editions of the French BD hit continue March 2023 - complete with added colour pages, bonus backmatter and a new translation
REVIEW: Black Girl Magic shines in Lupano & Fert’s WHITE ALL AROUND
Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert's WHITE ALL AROUND tells the real-life story of the Canterbury Female Boarding School, one of the first schools to educate Black girls in the United States.
REVIEW: The search for genius goes down the BRAIN DRAIN
In BRAIN DRAIN, a scientist pursues fame and fortune by stealing the brain of Albert Einstein.
INDIE VIEW: Detecting the INVISIBLE DIFFERENCES
Invisible Differences
Story by Julie Dachez and Fabienne Vaslet
Adaptation and art by Mademoiselle Caroline
Translated by Edward Gauvin
Oni Press
Over the past several years I feel like I’ve seen a small but noticeable increase in comics about...
INDIE VIEW: SUMMER SPIRIT is a harbinger of change
Summer Spirit
By Elizabeth Holleville
Translated by Amy Evans-Hill
NoBrow Press
Over the past decade or so, ghosts have really become a staple in comics aimed at girl readers of the middle school and high school demographic, appearing...
INDIE VIEW: PORTRAIT OF A DRUNK is a soused nightmare of absurd cruelty
Portrait of a Drunk
By Olivier Schrauwen, Florent Ruppert, and Jérôme Mulot
Fantagraphics
Like a Robert Louis Stevenson novel gone horribly wrong, Portrait of a Drunk dives headfirst into swashbuckling adventure, but with a focus on the...
INDIE VIEW: THE THIRD POPULATION demystifies mental healthcare
The Third Population
Written by Aurélien Ducoudray
Illustrated by Jeff Pourquié
Translated by Kendra Boileau
Penn State University Press Graphic Medicine
In my experience, most comics that tackle the subject of mental health come at it from a personal...
