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Editis, the second largest French book publisher, is to buy Delcourt, France/Belgium's third largest graphic novel publisher, behind Média-Participations and Glénat, and produces around five hundred graphic novels a year in the BD format Negotiations for the purchase have begun, and sources say that discussions are going well. Guy Delcourt, created the publisher 38 years ago,[...]

The new Asterix graphic novel The White Iris by Fabcaro and Didier Conrad out next month, expected to be the best-selliing comic of the year.

Ahead of the upcoming blockbuster graphic novel Asterix And The White Iris, Bleeding Cool has an exclusive original strip, The Chief's Fight.

I was just commenting how much I enjoyed the recent release of Bryan Talbot's Grandville: Integrale, when we get word of its greatest influence Blacksad

France is the capital of the Western World when it come to comic books. But it seems that in 2020., it doubled down on the audience for comic books that

The best-selling comic book of 2021 will be Asterix And The Griffin. That is now pretty much a given. It will have a higher print-run than Dav Pilkey's

The last time they announced the name of the new Asterix book, I was just outside Paris, at Parc Asterix. A few days later, Notre Dame burnt down. I hope

After a number of embarrassing events in recent weeks, a conglomerate of large and small publishers have called for the Angoulême festival to undergo a

Recently, we reported that none of the three nominees were likely to accept this year's Grand Prix from the Angoulême festival, after considerable controversy and change over the nominees. Both Alan Moore and Hermann had previously said they would refuse the award and new nominee Claire Wendling asked her fans not to vote for her. However, ACBD reports that[...]

And Claire Wendling, the subject of a campaign by comics writer Jean-David Morvan. Website BDGest decided to put the boot in with this infographic. Wendling, a famous name in France, moved to the USA to work in animation and games, but her work is incredibly influential worldwide Nevertheless, compared to the other two, her comic book body of work[...]

So the Angloueme Grand Prix got some much unwanted publicity this year after their decision to nominate thirty men for the most prestigious award in comics – but no women. After much to-ing and fro-ing, they eventually withdrew the entire list, asking voters to just vote for who they wanted. But another prize has entered the ring,[...]

We previously reported on a new initiative by Glenat Books to create brand new Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck titles from some less-than-traditional

First they listed thirty nominees for the Angoulême Grand Prix, the most prestigious award in the comics medium. No women were on the list. Then, after

They started with thirty. Then there were twenty-seven. Then there were twenty-four. Then there were twenty-two. And it was starting to look like they, as

FranceTVinfo adds two more Angouleme Grand Prix nominees withdrawing their name from the prize in protest against no women being selected for the

It is traditional each year for the President of Angoulême, the biggest comic art festival in the world, to draw a poster for the show. And so this years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCOnTRmBxzk Greg Capullo is the sponsor of a newly branded comic store, Central Comics, in Paris, France. Taking over from

Pedro Bouca writes for Bleeding Cool, I’ve just read the very first new Asterix book sold in Portugal (yeah, we got a midnight release here, Asterix is

Mutafukaz is the classic French punkish comic by Run getting an English translation by Titan Comics. Here's the trailer.

DC Comics isn't the only big publisher moving offices right now. Soleil is a big comic book publisher in France, owned by Delcourt an even bigger comic

The Angoulême Awards have now all been presented, as well as the Grand Prix Award to Katsuhiro Otomo and the Grand Prix Special Prize to Charlie Hebdo And it wouldn't be the only reference to that magazine in the prizes… The Gold Award for Best Album went to L'Arabe Du Futur Vol 1 by Riad Sattouf, published by Allary[...]

Laurent Queyssi writes for Bleeding Cool, The Angoulême Comics Festival isn't your typical comic-book convention. The publishers' and booksellers' booths,

@LEATV_ @SeanMurphyLA @Ssnyder1835" pic.twitter.com/0p4bdYNLIN — LEATV (@LEATV_) January 30, 2015 Made a comic about being in Angoulême, France pic.twitter.com/0kthytg6cQ — Ben Rankel (@benrankel) February 1, 2015 I do hope they all go here as well… This looks awesome A Jack Kirby exhibit at #Angouleme Photo by JD Morvan[...]

After the events of early January, this year's Angoulême was always going to be dominated by expressions of support and memorial to French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, those who died and were injured in the attack and to free speech as a whole. There were marches by comic creators and an address from the President, there were walls and[...]

Forget Star Wars #1. Forget Attack On Titan. The best selling comic book on 2015 will be released on October 22nd. The 36th, and as yet unnamed, volume of

His acceptance speech is below. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRu112Arjwo[/youtube] Otomo won with 38% of the vote, against Alan Moore and Hermann. A special prize has also been given to the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo has won the Grand Prix for Angoulême, recognising a comic book creator's contribution to the artform[...]

The Bill Watterson - The Quest for Calvin and Hobbes exhibition has opened in Angoulême, at the start of the largest comics art festival in the world.

ComiXology have returned to Angoulême, the world's biggest comic book festival, for their third year with a sale to spotlight comics, bandes dessinées (BD), graphic novels and manga from all over the world, both in English and French This international discount will apply through the festival until February 1st[...]

With the Grand Prix award going to either Alan Moore, Otomo or Hermann – or a last minute write-in vote for Charlie Hebdo. But could the weather have an influence on the voting process? Hurricane Hermann has just hit France… could that swing it one way or the other? As to Charlie Hebdo, it's sad that this[...]

The French cartoonist Riss, real name Laurent Sourisseau, injured in the attack against Charlie Hebdo almost two weeks ago, will succeed the late cartoonist Charb as editor on the satirical cartoon magazone. 20 Minutes quotes current acting editor Gérard Biard as saying "There were two bosses Charlie Hebdo: Charb and Riss Charb is no longer there, but Riss[...]