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Angoulême Poster By Baru Unveiled
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[...]
French Comics Workers Go On Strike
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
Now Batman Starts A T-Shirt Franchise In France
In France, clothes shop Celio is licensing a number of DC images for a series of T-shirts, that come in reproduction comic boxes. The T-shirts have a great disclaimer (reproduced below) reading "Attention: Superheroes have superpowers It is not recommended to imitate them Even if buying this product could make you feel invincible." [...]
French Market Increases Comics Production By 5.5%
That's 7.9% of all books produced in France, and up from 7.5% in 2009 In social sciences, literature or fiction children's books, comics make up 14,1%, 13,7% and 13,1% respectively. Of those 5165 copies, 980 were reissues or revised versions of previous published titles 297 were art collection books of comic artists raher than stories in[...]
Anti-Islamists Against Batman
It is a comic about duty, about personal responsibility, about one man making a difference and inspiring others. It's not exactly a communist comic book really. And in the two-part Batman Inc story written by David Hine, appearing in Detective Comics Annual and next week's Batman Annual, we met the new French Batman, Night Runner, who happens[...]
French Comics Distributor Le Comptoir Des Indépendants To Close
Les Belles Lettres is expected to take the majority of L'Association's remaining distribution. France stills has a very healthy comics industry, it has grown rapidly over the past twenty years, growing 375% in unit sales between 1990 and 2005, but since then the industry has plateaued and growth, almost expected by the industry,[...]
Obama Vs The KKK
This is a French comic book called Amerikkka from small publisher Emmanuel Proust. It's about a couple guys who fight the Ku Klux Klan on US soil. And