Tag: world comics
The Beat staff schedule in Angoulême 2018!
by Xavier Lancel
The Beat rendez-vous at Angouleme FIBD (January 25-28th)
The Beat will be at full throttle during the festival, proposing to you several encounters:
- The whole duration of the festival, come to the SCARCE...
Statix Week: Titan’s Chris Thompson on finding new European voices and global comics
It's Statix Week at the Beat and we kick things off with an interview with editor Chris Thompson on publishing more European Comics in the US.
Graphic India has a $5m plan for digital comics and more
Long time comics indusry watchers will appreciate the story of Graphic India, an Indian digital content portal that has a familiar face behind it: Sharad Devarajan, the man behind Liquid Comics and, before that,...
2018 Angoulême Festival Official Selection prize nominees announced
The 2018 Angoulême comics festival will be held January 25-28 next year, and today the official selections for the big prize were announced. The festival poster by the great Cosey was also unveiled. The...
NYCC ’17: “French Comics Kiss Better” with huge Comics Framed festival
Once again, the French Comics Association, the French Embassy, NYCC and some of the greatest cartoonsits working today are teaming up for "Comics Framed," a weeklong festival of European comics that will take lace...
Titan announces Statix Press imprint for Euro comics
Comics are still here and fighting and Titan Comics is going in with a NEW imprint: Statix Press, which will present European comics in English language editions. The line will include such classics as Philippe...
A Year of Free Comics: Elmer Part 1 by Gerry Alanguilan, a giant chicken...
Oh yeah since its friday and I'm thinking of Filipino comics, here's a comic from the Beat itself, issue #1 of Elmer by Gerry Alanguilan, a fairly amazing comics about a giant chicken who...
Dark Horse’s Moebius Library continues with ‘Inside Moebius Part 1’ in 2018
When Dark Horse announced they were bringing the works of the great Jean "Moebius" Giraud back into print in English there was a lot of excitement. A gorgeous volume, The World of Edena came...
MUST READ: Digital is overtaking print in Japanese manga publishing
Here's what can only be described as a bombshell article from The Japan Times which distills a report that shows that digital publishing is catching up fast with print for manga in Japan. (Google tells me...
SDCC ’17: Europe Comics brings DuFaux, Radovanovic and Munuera
The folks at Europe Comics (Disclaimer: they are a major sponsor of this site!) are coming to con and here's what they have going on, including three major European comics artists to meet, all...
More on The Future of Comics: the rise of Valerian and comics at ALA
I got quite a response to my rant on the ascent of graphic novels and and decline of the periodical that ran last week.
While I felt constrained not to leak to much of the...
Indie comics fans are already raving about ShortBox #5
The fifth edition of Zainab Akhtar's ShortBox is available for purchase worldwide. This is a curated box of short comics by the best indie cartoonists out there including Freddy Casrasco, Jeremy Sorese Areeba Siddique,...
