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Like the traditional fringe, it will happen on the same dates that Angoulême would have occurred, but with a much increased 113 events planned so far across fifteen venues, as well as more throughout France, including Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyon, Strasbourg, Brussels, Marseille, Paris, Montpellier, Mons, and Tournon-sur-Rhône. Le Grand Off The event will be free, showcase[...]

The first Absolute Batman comic book collection by Scott  Snyder and Nick Dragotta has been published in France, translated from the English And it is getting a little publicity from the French publisher and licensor Urban Comics As Felix Comic Art social media posts "ABSOLUTE BATMAN is taking over the world! Check out this giant billboard[...]

interlinked feminist comics parties across France and Belgium, set for the original Angoulême dates, as Angoulême Grand Prix 2025 winner Anouk Ricard, an early boycott leader, volunteered a banner design for the cause These events aim to celebrate comics with an emphasis on diversity, equity, and the voices of creators who often felt sidelined by[...]

What would have been the Official Selection List for the Cancelled Angoulême Comic Art Festival 2026

French politicians fight amongst themselves, and launch their own mayoral campaigns, over the cancellation of Angoulême Comic Art Festival

The ink had barely dried on the official cancellation of the 2026 Angoulême Comic Art Festival on Monday, when the fallout began rippling through France's comics epicentre The announcement from organisers Société 9ᵉ Art+ delivered via a terse legal communiqué declaring the "impossible under appropriate conditions" and accusing the government of sabotaging the show, wasn't[...]

Angoulême Comics Festival was officially cancelled today, amongst accusations of sabotage and finger pointing at the French government

Angoulême Comic Art Festival In France, Officially "On Hold" For 2026

Italian comic book artist Elena Mistrello was expelled from France last Friday, after flying into Toulouse-Blagnac airport, planning to attend the Colomiers International Comics Festival to promote the French edition of her  graphic novel Syndrome Italie Rather than asking for an autograoh, French customs officials handed her an entry ban under the shared border Schengen[...]

YouTube screencap However, last night in an interview with Ouest-France, the Minister Rachida Dati announced that she might reinstate an exceptional subsidy of that money, amidst what is seen as an existential crisis for the event next year Dati states she hopes the event will continue "This event is essential for comics It's a structuring force[...]

Bleeding Cool previously covered the latest news with creators and publishers pulling out and boycotting the show, the national government withdrawing funding, and local government calling for the show to be abandoned over a mix of issues, from corruption to mismanagement to sexual assault. Élise Bouché-Tran on France 3 screencap On Friday, Élise Bouché-Tran, the former communications manager[...]

One of the biggest and oldest comic art festivals, Angoulême in Charentaise, France, is teetering on the brink of oblivion Bleeding Cool has been covering the events since the show last year that have led to threatened boycotts by publishers and creators alike, over the decisions made by the owners FIBD, the actions of the[...]

The French Government has been called on by politicians to intervene in the future of the Angoulême Comics Festival... if it has one

Creators Pénélope Bagieu and Florence Cestac joined the chorus, and Cestac, a past Grand Prix recipient, lamented on France Inter in November that the festival was dying, echoing an open letter in November in L'Humanité signed by over 20 former laureates declaring that "The Festival of Comics in Angoulême is in mortal danger." The next[...]

Is The 2026 Angoulême Boycott Still On? Yes... and No.. It all pretty much depends upon who you ask.

Last August, Bleeding Cool reported that Editis, the second largest French book publisher, was to buy Delcourt, France/Belgium's third largest graphic novel publisher, behind Média-Participations and Glénat, which produces around five hundred graphic novels a year However, the purchase had to be approved by competition authorities Now the French Competition Authority approved the takeover on[...]

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,[...]

21-year-old French Olympics pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati may not have won a medal, but he made a very big impression on viewers.

In the wake of the Angouleme Comic Art Festival in France, which hosted around 200,000 attendees and comic book creators, publishers and exhibitions from across the world (but mainly France), we have some statistics from one of the most successful comic book publishing countries in the world, courtesy of the Guardian newspaper All I needed to[...]

Turns out, commentary on dating, pop culture, and big-city life is universal—even if the big city in question is Paris, France!  "Boulet's improvisational, imaginative, and insanely creative comic strips have been a key part of the world of webcomics since he started posting them online way back in the early 2000s," says translator and editor[...]

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.

Xavier Lancel runs SCARCE Magazine in France, a fanzine that specialises in American comic books, and reported for Bleeding Cool from Angouleme most years But of late, he has found a very different business to dive into – and it is remarkable that no one else has thought of this before I bumped into him[...]

A new book released every two years in its home country of France, it is guaranteed to be the best-selling book of the year, and it will certainly be the best-selling comic book in most European countries for that year, as well as in large swathes of South America, Canada, Australia, Israel, India, Pakistan, all[...]

Asterix & The White Iris, the 40th Asterix volume out this October, will tackle New Age thinking and eating meat.

LEGO wants fans to bring the architecture of France home with their newest LEGO Ideas set Forget the plane tickets; the Eiffel Tower comes home with this massive 10,001-piece construction set When fully built, the tower stands a whopping 58" tall and 22.5" wide, and it comes together in 4 parts LEGO went all in[...]

We're no experts on math, but we're pretty sure that if you add all of that money up, it equals looming moral depravity for the future of France It's enough to make any right-minded, God-fearing Frenchman toss their beret and proclaim: sacré bleu! An example of French culture which could be completely destroyed by French teens'[...]

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 have seen comic book creation dubbed The Ninth Art (just ahead of video gaming and behind movies) Book sales in France fell from 2.8 billion[...]

His father was framed for the theft of a diamond necklace owned by one of France's most powerful families, the Pellegrinis. Diop takes inspiration from the ArsèneLupin stories, early 20th-century French novellas by Maurice Leblanc about a gentleman thief who robs from the rich– sort of a French mix of Robin Hood and Sherlock Holmes[...]

Pakistan has temporarily shut down all access from its citizens to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites, on orders from the country's interior

On the 21st of October 2021, Asterix, Obelix and Dogmatix will return for their 39th comic book storyline, and with the traditional printing run that will take up many printers and many warehouses for over five million copies of the first printing of Asterix And The Griffin, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad. As well as[...]