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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,[...]

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[...]

Set for 2023, the 3D-animated series will be produced in France and be based on Asterix and the Big Fight, where the Romans (after a steady stream of embarrassments courtesy of Asterix and his village crew) organize a brawl between rival Gaulish chiefs and try to fix the result by kidnapping a druid along with[...]

His father was framed for the theft of a diamond necklace owned by one of France's most powerful families, the Pellegrinis When the necklace shows up for auction at the Louvre in Paris, he assembles a crew to steal the necklace that holds the key to the mystery of who framed his father. Diop takes inspiration[...]

It was the best selling comic in the world and the best selling book of any description in France. Ferri was giving very little away but stated that "I can say that it is about a "travel" album since the last adventure took place in the village Asterix and Obelix will set off for an unprecedented[...]

They want to know who, and how many, are coming. For those who have a dated ticket initially valid for a visit between April 4 and June 14, 2020 or previously purchased undated ticket, you must exchange your ticket on the Parc Astérix website and choose your date of visit. Parc Astérix is a theme amusement park[...]

Age 16+ Belsize Community Library, Antrim Grove, Belsize Park, London. Making Our Way Home graphic novel signing, Vault of Midnight Grand Rapids, Michigan, 5-7pm. Jared Reinmuth + Dan Meyers: Big Black: Stand at Attica, Strand Book Store, New York 7-8pm. Happy birthday to… Frédéric Moliérac of Panini Comics France Joe Phillips of Mister Miracle, Timber Wolf, Star Trek, Doctor Who and Aliens. Dan Forcey, former[...]

Hulu has the streaming rights to the Adult Swim series here in the U.S., while Channel 4 has the rights lock in across the pond, in the U.K. So that means Netflix gets to introduce the following chunks of the world to the down side to peaceful pooping and the smooth flow of snake jazz: India,[...]

Last night during the 2019 Capcom Cup, the company revealed its plans for 2020, including showing the Cacpcom Cup 2020 would head to Paris.

This week, Team Vitality decided to show off the outside of their new esports complex in Paris, France which they have dubbed the V.Hive While they were more than happy to boast about it, as you'll read below, and show off the outside, we've seen nothing from the indoors As of right now, it sounds[...]

We're live in Paris, France as Com2uS presents the Summoners War Championship 2019 This is it! The Grand Finals match between Thompsin and L'est. Credit: Com2uS/Webedia Summoners War Championship 2019 Match: Thompsin vs L'est Both men came out swinging for the first game, both of them getting the usual bands in to keep the heavy-powered characters out of[...]

We're live in Paris, France as Com2uS presents the Summoners War Championship 2019 Here are the results of the semifinals featuring the final four. Credit: Com2uS/Webedia Match One: Baus~ vs Thompsin The first match was quickly contested as both men pushed each other to the limit, but Thompsin popped in for the quick takedown ok the healer and[...]

We're live in Paris, France as Com2uS presents the Summoners War Championship 2019 Here are the results of the quarterfinals featuring the top eight players. Credit: Com2uS/Webedia Match One: Judas vs Thompsin The first match showed both men bringing in some of their best builds Both managed to knock out a character a piece early on bringing it[...]

Captain Marvel will be headed to Disneyland Paris next year for the park's Summer of Superheroes event, like a comic book crossover come to life (except

We're in the home stretch of the Six Major Paris as we see the best of the best in Rainbow Six Siege competition duke it out.

We're live in Paris, France at the Six Major Paris, the second-biggest tournament from Ubisoft for Rainbow Six Siege Eight teams have made it this far, and today during the first day of games, we're going to whittle that down to four Here are the results for the first half of the quarterfinals from August[...]

Brazil's Felipe Camargo was crowned "Ultimate Beastmaster." Season 2 premiered on December 15, 2017; with competitors from the United States, Spain, France, Italy, China and India China's Haibin Qu was crowned the season's "Ultimate Beastmaster." ●  The nine countries taking part are the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Brazil, Italy, France, South Korea and Mexico India[...]

Directed by Thierry Poiraud and Julien Despaux and created by Mathieu Missoffe, the series premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and would go on to open the European Film Markets's Berlinale Special Series before premiering on France 2 in April. Here's the original synopsis for Black Spot, starring Suliane Brahim, Laurent Capellutto, Hubert Delattre, Camille Aguilar[...]