Tag: French comics
FIBD Angoulême 2018 Day 1-2: Hot graphic novels of Europe
Bonjour from Angoulême. A few naps and some bad wifi since last we spoke but things are humming here. As at most cons, Saturday is the "big day" and most people are escaping huge...
Review: The ‘Park Bench’ at the center of the universe
There have been several good works over the past few years - Here, A Castle In England, and 750 Years In Paris come to mind - that examine the idea of place, and each...
RIP Annie Goetzinger
Annie Goetzinger, a grand dame of French comics has passed away suddenly at the age of 66. NBM's Terry Nantier, who published two of her books in English, Girl in Dior and Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen,...
Review: ‘Beautiful Darkness’ team goes to Hell in ‘Satania’
There’s something delightfully old fashioned about Satania, at least at the beginning, and that nod to tradition is what makes the whole experience so thrilling the nostalgia for this kind of adventure tale is...
TOLJA! IDW and Glénat team up for new “Original Graphic Novel” initiative with Carey,...
Here's a big deal that's also very smart: IDW Publishing and the huge French comics publisher Glénat are launching a new joint initiative, “Original Graphic Novel”, which is "focused on the creation of original comic books, to be...
To Do: Federico Bertolucci and his adorable Little Tails series go to the ALA
We've been raving about the work of artist Federico Bertolucci, for a while here. As the artist on the LOVE series, published by Magnetic, he captured the natural world with drama, terror and beauty. And...
ALA 2017: French Comics Association and Europe Comics Announce A Mini-Con of Events!
From their website:
The French Comics Association is pleased to bring acclaimed francophone and other international graphic novelists to Chicago for the American Library Association Annual Conference, “the premier global library event bringing together the newsmakers,...
Review: The quiet poetry of Chaboute’s ‘Alone’
It’s 84 pages in before the subject of French graphic novelist Chaboute's largely silent work Alone finally appears, and even then, it’s only in the form of a hand dropping food to a goldfish in...
A year of free comics: Valerian & Laureline and The Swimming Pool of Micheville
Izneo is the Comixology for France but they have an English language portal, and two albums you can download for free in English. They're the digital versions of the editions published here in the...
FRENCH COMICS FRAMED: Tonight an amazing French comics festival kicks off in New York
If you like great cartoonists and live in New York, you are in luck, because a pretty amazing festival of French comics is coming to town and bringing some incredible artists with it including Pénélope...
INTERVIEW: Jessica Abel on Intersection of Comics and Radio and the Limitations of Art
by Alex Dueben
Jessica Abel has produced a unique body of work in comics that ranges from two collections of her award winning comic series Artbabe (Soundtrack and Mirror, Window), the acclaimed graphic novel La...
Great French Comics I Want To Read In English!
Recently, right before BookExpo America commenced, the French Embassy sponsored an invitation-only symposium on French comics, the American market, and how both can benefit from the other.
Heidi has already posted statistics and video from the...
