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Does Anyone Actually Want The Angoulême Grand Prix?
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[...]
As Letter 44 Joins The Angoulême Official List, The Creators Head To France…
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[...]
Now Christophe Blain And Pierre Christin Withdraw From Angoulême Grand Prix Over Lack Of Female Nominees – Over A Quarter Of All Names
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 State Of Comics In France In 2015
The ACBD have issued their full report, embedded below, by Gilles Ratier, secretary general of CALL. Calling the last year a "year of rationalisation",
Greg Capullo Sponsors Paris' New, Biggest Comic Shop, Central Comics
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,[...]
Whose Angoulême Is It Anyway?
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
FIFA, The Comic Book…
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
Delcourt Closes Soleil Offices In Toulon
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[...]
Titan To Publish Nikopol Trilogy, Skydoll And More European Classics
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[...]