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Webcomics are not that popular in France yet We have a lot of "blog BD" famous and succesfull but few of them actually tell a continuing storyline Close Call Comics' SAGA And sadly Angoulême did not give a lot of room for "american comics" (I mean mainstream super-heroes tale) this year, besides Panini's booth[...]

Le Cowabunga, dude. This is how a French comic book publisher promotes their new oversized Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle graphic novel. By delivering it in

Xavier Lancel of SCARCE magazine, writes for Bleeding Cool; In seven hours time, the worlds biggest comics convention begins, Angoulême in France And SCARCE Magazine wants people to celebrate Ernie COLON As last year, SCARCE, a french magazine about US comics, published since 1983, will soon attend the 39th International Bandes Dessinées Festival in Angoulême (in France). And[...]

Massive french publisher Gallimard are in the process of buying French group Falmmarion, which currently belongs to an Italian company. Now, Flammarion

These are typically 48-72 page colour hardcover volumes. While there are 310 comic book publishers in France, four of them, Media Participations, Delcourt, Glenat and Flammarion take almost half the business, with Delcourt at number one after the purchase of rival publisher Le Soleil. The best selling title was the long awaited XIII volume 20 by Yves[...]

Courtesy of French site MooLooZone, What If... Herge Created The X-Men?

The Day Of The Mayflower will be released in France by Dargaud on November 18th, and is expected to sell around half a million copies. Here is a preview of the twentieth volume of the French spy thriller comic, XIII – four years after the previous volume and[...]

Media Participations is the biggest comic book publishersin France The third biggest publisher of any material And the parent company of Dargaud, Le Lombard and Depuis. Well, Media Participations is as vulnerable to the changing market as anyone One bright spark there has noted how smaller French publisher Sandawe has had some success with a Kickstarter-style[...]

These Gauls are crazy. Created by French office workers in their lunch break...

Bleeding Cool reported recently that Media Participations had grabbed the rights from Panini to publish DC Comics titles in France And had employees of Panini e-mailing in to find out more. Well, as Paris Comic Con opens today, it's been announced Dargaud, owned by Media Participations, and recognised as the largest comics publisher in France, will[...]

Panini is a monster of a worldwide comics publisher, publishing Marvel titles in almost all territories, and DC rights in a number  as well. Well, it appears that Panini will be losing the rights to publishing DC and Vertigo comics in France, one of the biggest and certainly the most prestigious comics markets in the world. It's[...]

A major French comic book series is in need of an artist. Tanguy And Laverdure is the most famous aviation comics series in France.It was created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Asterix's Albert Uderzo Asterix, and later drawn by and Jijé, the man who taught Moebius. So, you know, no pressure. It has generated a TV series and a[...]

One of the bigger French comics publishers, Delcourt has just bought a majority share in another of the bigger French comics publishers, Soleil. Together, that sees Delcourt leapfrog competitor Glenat in terms of size, becoming the largest independent comics publisher in France by far Of course, they are smaller than Media Participations who own Dargaud, Lombard[...]

Bleeding Cool has catalogued a number of the woes of French alternative comics publisher , as it has seen mainstream publishers take over the kind of

This is the Abu Dhab branch of the Angoulême's Comics Museum opening a subsidiary opening in 2014. Championed by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, it would be an

The current artist of the long running Belgian/French comics series Black And Mortimer, André Juillard, has a problem. He needs pictures of Oxford train

Legendary comic book creator Lewis Trondheim has posted a number of pages from his upcoming expose on the L'Association comics publisher on his blog. Here

Denis Robert is a French investigative journalist who revealed the first Clearstream fianncial instituition money laundering scandal ten years ago. Since

The Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain in Paris is currently showing an exhibition devoted to the work of Moebius, as well as his other pseudonym

The first one was seeing how many different comics they have in France Someone who has never seen the bande désinees section in a Fnac bookshop does not have an idea of the size of the difference between US market (and Brazilian market as well, since I came from there) and[...]

Tim Fish reports from Angoulême for Bleeding Cool Tim Fish here (writer/artist of CAVALCADE OF BOYS and some Marvel bits like in NATION X), reporting on

Earlier this month, Bleeding Cool reported that ex-Dupuis editor Jean Van Hamme would be at Angoulême this year, the first time for twenty years since he

Xavier Lancel writes for Bleeding Cool As we entered our second day at the festival, (and the third one in Angoulême), Abby (Denson), Fred (Harper), Tim

After bribing her with hamburgers, Abby hooked me up with Xavier Lancel, editor of SCARCE, and soon me and Fred were heading to France. Angoulême Comics Festival really is as dreamy as people say it is Held on the rampart ringed hilltop of Angoulême's old town, the festival is everywhere There are tents[...]

And that the working of the company, especially the actions editorial director JC Menu be more transparent. In other Angoulême news, the American Ambassador to France, Charles Rivkin, opened the Peanuts exhibition in the town, with Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand and European Affairs Minister Laurent Wauquiez – who is a real comic book geek. [...]

Abby Denson, creator of Dolltopia, writes for Bleeding Cool, reporting from the world's largest comic convention, Angoulême, happening now! Hi folks, this

In less than two weeks, the biggest comic book convention in the world begins, Angoulême in France. During the four day festival, Virtual Graphics will launch, publishing comics from the two-year-old German webcomics site Zampano, with all strips now running in German, English and French, including work by  David Boller (Kaos Moon, Witchblade, Spider-Man, Elfquest),[...]

French comics magazine Zoo is publishing a free special edition for Angoulême. And, because it's free, they're putting it online in advance too. The cover

Here's the main poster for the Angoulême festival, the largest comics convention t=in the world, taking place in France in the town of Angoulême at the end of the month. It's by last year's Great Prize winner at – and as a result this year's festival's president – Baru. The four figures on the wall are from[...]

Bleeding Cool has previously reported on the closing of the distrubutor for French comics publisher L'Association as the company has reduced its line. Now