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Yesterday, it was announced that the three finalists for the Angoulême Grand Prix award, which celebrates a comic book creator's lifetime contributing to

This is the cover to the memorial issue of Charlie Hebdo, to be published this  Wednesday And for those unwilling to try and fight for copies, the kind folk on eBay will sell you a copy for over fifteen times its cover price… that's $58 or £38… "All Is Forgiven"… [...]

Last year, the Angoulême Festival chose three finalists to win their Grand Prix Award for the show, and become their president at the festival for the

Long standing French family-friendly comics anthology Spirou is publishing a special Charlie Hebdo tribute issue this Friday It's a strange shift in tone, as if The Simpsons were to promote Lost Girls. Oh, they did. The titular hero Spirou is the one who wears the Je Suis Charlie shirt, unveiled as Clark Kent might for Superman[...]

As I hoped, there will indeed be a new issue of Charlie Hebdo out next week, despite the massacre in their offices yesterday morning. They will be printing a million copies. I get the feeling that won't be nearly enough. There have been many cartoon tributes to the staff of the French satirical magazine since the massacre yesterday[...]

That's rather short notice. The 36th Asterix comic book, to be written by Jean-Yves Ferri and Conrad, has been scheduled for this October. And the French

We told you how the  director of La Cité de la BD was pushed away earlier this year Now the show seems to be trying to divest its connections with the 9eArt+ association (and particularly its director Franck Bondoux…) Expect more controversy as the show grows nearer.   Bill Watterson is President of next year's Angouleme Comic Art Festival in[...]

Mark Millar has been trying to work out the biggest comics market outside of the US and Japan (it's France). But he did give us a breakdown of his foreign

A comic that the late comic creator/editor/translator/publisher Kim Thompson really wanted to publish, but was tied up in rights disputes, is going to be

After seven years not speaking to each other (and with a few lawsuits in the middle), a statement has been released stating that the co-creator of

French comics publisher Casterman is to simultaneously release the next volume of one of its biggest hit comics in May. Airborne 44 by Philippe Jarbinet

Bleeding Cool previously reported on plans by Tintin publisher Casterman to publish a new volume one year before the character enters the public domain,

Blegvad (L'Apocalypse) and Mon Ami Dahmer, Derf Backderf (Ca et La) Best album: Come Prima, Alfred (Delcourt) Jury special award: La Propriété, Rutu Modan (Actes Sud BD) Pulp/crime award: Ma Révérence by Wilfrid Lupano and Rodguen Best series: Fuzz & Pluck Vol 2, Ted Stearn (Cornelius) Heritage award: Cowboy Henk by Herr Seele and Kamagurka (Fremok) It is quite possible that[...]

So how did he take the news? Moore told Actual-BD that he'd withdrawn his name Translated into French and then back into English, courtesy of Aurelien Gaillard.  "No… Didier, I don't go to comic conventions anymore I've decided not to accept any more awards, don't be mad at me I'd rather they were given to less conventional[...]

One of the amazing regular events at Angouleme is the twenty-four hour comic event, in which comic creators, professionals, amateurs and students all

ComiXology are at Angouleme, and are surveying people passing by the booth... and these are the results so far. And they have Jeremy Nguyen writing and

Bob And Bobette is a classic Belgian comic strip. It looks like this. Or rather it did. Because it's getting a revamp and now looks... like this.   Quite

The most famous French language comics schools are the St. Luc Institute in Brussels and the Angoulême School. Strangely, I don't think that Paris had

The Grand Prix at Angoulême is the highest acclaim any comic book creator can receive in comics. Voted on by the Grand Prix Academy made up of acclaimed

ACBD has looked at the overall French comic book market, and we have learned lots of things Here are just a few. 5159 comic books were published in France in 2013,  3882 of them brand new, down 7.3% on 2012, the first drop in seventeen years. Of these, the French/Belgian titles 39.3% of new comics against 42.1%[...]

The highly regarded prizes given out by the Angoulême Comic Book Festival have, in the past, been criticised for being too insular. Recognising comic book

A look at some of the exhibitions at Angouleme this week. Don't you wish you'd been there? Andreas Hoochie Coochie Brecht Evens Uderzo expo: Jano expo:

The Angoulême Festival has revealed their winners of 2013. The Grand Prix was split, between Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball who received a

French comic anthology Spirou has announced its Christmas double-sized special, issue 3895. In which, amongst many Christmas stories give us Céline

The French bookstore chain Cultura has replaced FNAC as the main sponsor of the world's largest and most prestigious comics convention. This represents a

Abby Denson writes for Bleeding Cool. Hi, I'm Abby DENSON. This is my third year at Angouleme. So far, I'm making good on my vow to come every year, and

But here are the full list of winners, as presented at Angoulême today, at the show's closing ceremony. (Pictured, French Minister of Culture and Communication Frederic Mitterand getting Art Spiegelman's attention.) The Prix Jeunesse, as previously reported for children's comics, went to Zombillénium Vol 2 by Arthur de Pins from Dupuis. Le Prix d'Angoulême de la BD scolaire,[...]

But in France, the market is so vast and diverse, it's still one of the most mature in the world. There were also more comics festivals, conventions and exhibitions this year in France than ever before, a total of 455. Thanks to ACBDF and Comics Place In the French comic book market, it's been another year of[...]

Bleeding Cool has catalogued a number of the woes of French alternative comics publisher , as it has seen mainstream publishers take over the kind of

Bleeding Cool has covered the strike at French comics publisher L'Association, supported by the people who originally founded the company, and the picket