Tag: world comics
Interview: Famed Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca talks about history, memory and dreams
In recent years, Paco Roca has established himself as one of the bright lights of Spanish cartooning and the world. Perhaps best known for his 2007 graphic novel Wrinkles about a group of elderly residents in a home that deals in beautiful and heartbreaking ways with dementia and other issues.
Interview: Asaf Hanuka balances life and terror in The Realist: Plug and Play
Asaf Hanuka's webcomic The Realist has been running for years with a mix of withering self deprecation, family foibles and the occasional dark realities of life in Tel Aviv. As caustic as it can...
The Beat is hitting the road again
The Beat is on the road again: this time to Havana for the C3 (Comic Cretaors Conference) Cuba edition. I'll be appearing with Dan DiDio, Denis Calero, John Nee, Vince Hernandez and other erudite comics...
A Week of Free Experimental Comics: There are endless ways to experience The...
Edited to add: Huh, somehow Wordpress decided to take out all the links - here's the direct link to The Building and to Vidu's page.
Immeuble (The Building) by Vidu is another Fauve nominee in the...
A Week of Free Experimental Comics: Odyssée 2.0
It's been a while since we dug into the world of "future comics" that use a combination of animation, sound, scrolling, and other, more imaginative, effects to present comics in a new way. The gold...
Indonesian Marvel artist Ardian Syaf to be disciplined after controversial X-Men Gold art references
If you somehow missed the Ardian Syaf controversy over the weekend...well, lucky you, But here's a rundown of what happened.
• First the background: Ardian Syaf is a comics artist from Indonesia, whose worked on...
The state of Irish comics on St. Paddy’s Day
Speaking of Declan Shalvey, while waiting on a plane he put up a series of tweets covering the state of the Irish comics industry, which is robust.
And here's a few of the books he mentioned:
Stephen...
To Do: Blutch and Stefaniec are coming to the US courtesy of Europe Comics
The indie comics circuit is heating up for 2017, and Mocca is just a few weeks away. Europe Comics, the portal for digital editions of European comics classics in English, is sponsoring two cartoonists in the...
A Year of Free Comics: Culottes by Pénélope Bagieu covers notable women in history
UPDATE! AT the event Bagieu told me that "Culottes" will be published next year by First Second as Brazen. Yay!
Tonight at 7:30 I'm doing a book release event at the WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn...
PEN World Voices Festival spotlights gender, power and graphic novels with Rokudenashiko and more
PEN America is a prestigious literary organization devoted to the freedom to write around the world. Their annual World Voices Festival brings together writers from around the world in a series of panels and...
“Paysage après la bataille” wins top prize at Angoulême
The Fauves, the official awards of the Angoulême Comics Festival were handed out over the weekend and there was no mockery or satire, only awards for comics. Thanksthe lord for small favors. The complete...
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...
