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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

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

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

#CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie — Andy Diggle (@andydiggle) January 7, 2015 Woke up to some pretty horrific news from France Thoughts are with the victims, whose only crime was celebrating free speech #JeSuisCharlie — Declan Shalvey (@declanshalvey) January 7, 2015 #JeSuisCharlie 12 dead in Paris because maniacs prioritize their dogma above the lives of creative people with a different[...]

This is France's largest terrorist attack to date And newsrooms across the country are currently under major security alert as well. The gunmen are reported to be still at large, and there have been reports of gun battles with police taking place across Paris. Ils ont tiré à deux reprises les balles ont traversé la porte et[...]

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

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 sales on Kick Ass. US and UK comic creators often discount how many sales we have in Europe DC pay a very small percentage of what[...]

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 re-released in France. While he was working on translations on the Sybil-Anne books, Kim Thompson wrote copious editor's notes on something entirely different, Chaminou by the comic creator Macherot, a book he really wanted[...]

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

La Cité de la BD is the French comic book institution that includes the Angoulême comics museum and is very influential in the annual Angoulême comic book

Early this week, we gave a look at the new cover to Terry Dodson's Red Widow, now renamed due to legal concerns as Red Skin, for the launch of the first volume, Welcome To America, in France next month. The English translation will come from Image Comics, but again will need another translation, so as not[...]

This was Terry Dodson's original cover to the French graphic novel series he's drawing, Red Widow. At the tie we thought that was just a leeeetle close to

The French have one of the most successful comic book industries and art forms in the world. So why do they have to rub it in and make the imported

In 2010, French cartoonist Plantu drew a cartoon picturing the Pope having sex with a baby. Which means the Pope portrayed wasn't this Pope, it was the

France does comic conventions a little differently One tradition occurs around how comic creators create are at said shows And how the Paris Comics Expo is going to change things and make them a little more… American. I remember in the UK when it was traditional for comic book artists to appear at shows and sketch[...]

France does Free Comic Book Day differently Firstly, they do it two weeks later, because they are lazy. Then they take two whole days to do it in. And they only give away eight free comics. See, it's that lack of commitment that ensures France only has a massive comics industry. Hmmm. More here, when they get round to adding[...]

Here is the comic.   Translated, this German blog-turned comic by Mazas Sylvain reads "This book will allow me to solve the Middle-East conflict, get

It's not just DC Comics in America that is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Batman. In France, DC licensor Urban Comics (Dargaud) is going to publish five classic Batman comics in black and white And in French, obviously. Dark Knight Returns, Year One, Dark Victory, Hush and Court of the Owls will all be published in full[...]

Xavier Lancel writes for Bleeding Cool, SCARCE held its usual booth in the Alternative/Small editors section of the FIBD (International Bandes Dessinées Festival) in Angoulême, France, during the four days of this event While feeling the wholeness of the event and how it litterally invades this medieval city is something to experience, if your goal is[...]

2, Ted Stearn (Cornelius) Heritage award: Cowboy Henk by Herr Seele and Kamagurka (Fremok) It is quite possible that Ted Stearn is better known in France now than in his native USA But the big awards went mostly to French and Belgian talent And here's the closing of the festival in its totality… [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4PIKvBNTuQ[/youtube]   [...]

So Alan Moore is one of the three main nominees for the Grand Prix of Angoulême, alongside Bill Watterson and Katsuhiro Otomo. Such an honour, the

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

until now. Guy Delcourt is the head of France's second largest comics publisher Group Delcourt, including Delcourt, Sun, Quadrants, and Tonkam. And ahead of this week's Angoulême Comic Art Festival, he announced on French media this morning that he will be investing in a new comics school in Paris. The aim is to invest in new and upcoming[...]

The Cité du Livre of Aix-en-Provence in France is planning its major exhibition of comic book artwork for the year, their eleventh to date And they have chosen Englishman Alan Moore, the first time they have celebrated a comics writer over an artist or writer/artist. Concentrating on prints and original artwork of his comics, including Eddie[...]

Bleeding Cool is a little freaked by our seeming-clairvoyance here... But Bill Watterson, Katsuhiro Otomo and Alan Moore have won the first round of

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

2013 saw the release of Asterix And The Picts, a 35th volume in the long running Asterix series , and became the best selling comic book of the year.