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From the 'French Comics Kiss Better' panel at NYCC: five French artists took the stage to discuss their work and alert fans to upcoming titles.

France's critically acclaimed sci-fi series Missions now has a new stateside home, as AMC Networks' Shudder streaming service has acquired the rights to the series from AB International Distribution The terms of the deal give Shudder exclusive "first rights" for broadcast in the U.S., Canada and UK/Ireland for the first season of the series, which[...]

It looks like fans won't need to wait until Wonder Woman hits theaters this summer to find out which big bad she'll be facing off with in the highly

Recently, we reported that none of the three nominees were likely to accept this year's Grand Prix from the Angoulême festival, after considerable

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

Letter 44, the Oni Press series much enjoyed by Bleeding Cool by Charles Soule and Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque is published by Glénat in France. And it was added to the Official List for Angoulême next year, considered the best of the comics published by French publishers of the year. And, in a timely fashion, Soule and Alburquerque[...]

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

And members of the Academy and those who have had their work published in France over the last year, have been invited to vote for whoever they want. They're calling it "a final step in the democratization of the Grand Prix nominations" and that they will "submit to the absolute free will of creators for the election of the[...]

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 thirty-strong list French creators Christophe Blain, of Quai d'Orsay and Pierre Christin of Valerian have now joined Milo Manara, Etienne Davodeau, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, Riad Sattouf and Joann Sfar making a total of eight out of the thirty, over a[...]

The Angoulême Grand Prix is the most prestigious award in the comic book medium, recognising a creator's contribution to the artform over their life. This

Next week, Charlie Hebdo is to release nearly a million copies of a special issue to mark a year since twelve of their cartoonists and staff were murdered

The ACBD have issued their full report, embedded below, by Gilles Ratier, secretary general of CALL. Calling the last year a "year of rationalisation",

The Angoulême List is yet to be announced, but two other big French comic awards have announced their finalists. Firstly the French comics critics'

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

As well as his many personal credits, Jean-Marc Lofficier worked with Moebius - Jean Giraud - extensively over their lives, including translating many of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCOnTRmBxzkVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Greg Capullo speaks about Central-Comics, Paris (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 Apo K Lyps Comics, Central Comics promises to be the biggest comic shop in Paris, 90 m², with 250 000 back issues from the fifties till the present, statues,[...]

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.

Unveiled on Monday, at the entrance of the old port of La Rochelle, are two new gargoyles. They are modelled on the cartoonists Cabu and Georges Wolinski,

French cartoonist Jacques Tardi has rallied against a cultural event in Paris that honours Tel Aviv, saying, It's my total outrage that motivated this

Last month, the owners of the Angoulême Festival, the largest comic book convention in the Western World, announced that it had canceled its contract with

This is the first page of the new Corto Maltese comic book, the first to be published after creator Hugo Pratt's death, published in the French newspaper

The IR$ series is a French comic  about, you guessed it, an IRS agent. Written by Stephen Desberg, drawn by Bernard Vrancken,  published by Le Lombard in

  French newspaper Le Figaro has landed the cover of the new Corto Maltese graphic novel. The creator of Corto Maltese, Hugo Pratt, died twenty years

When Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland, it was coloured by Jon Higgins with a garish colour scheme, lots of purples and greens and

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 boom publisher in France since 2011. Delcourt is going to close the Soleil offices in Toulon Some of workers will have to move to Paris, but others will be let[...]

This is what Milo Manara had to put drawing more pictures of Spider-Woman with her bum up in the air on hold for... Caravaggio. To be published across

From the new Titan Comics previews… they will be publishing the Nikpol trilogy by Enki Bilal,       The central plot of the trilogy, set in 2023 Paris, follows Alcide Nikopol who returns from a 30-year sentence spent orbiting the Earth under cryopreservation to find France under fascist rule following two nuclear wars. Showman Killer by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Nicolas Fructus, Mercenary[...]