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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