New York City is host to MoCCA over the 9th and 10th of April, boasting some fabulous guests such as Peter Bagge, Nick Bertozzi, Jules Feiffer, Pascal Girard, Dean Haspiel, Ben Katchor, Chip Kidd, Michael Kupperman, Gahan Wilson, Adrian Tomine, Bill Plympton, Jessica Abel, Kate Beaton and many more, alongside some our favourite publishers like [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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The Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival is almost upon us once more, running from the 14th to the 17th of April, with a theme of sports this year to tie in with the upcoming Olympics next year and Shropshire’s own role in the modern Olympic movement (the first modern era games were held there in 1850, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 7, 2011
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From March 4th through to the 13th, the thirtieth edition of Anima, the International Animation Film Festival of Brussels, will take place, kicking off with The Borrower Arrietty, the latest film from the famed Studio Ghibli (a huge fave of ours – Joe). Over the next ten days the festival will screen no less than one [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 3, 2011
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So, everybody’s recovered from last month’s Angoulême extravaganza ? Then it’s time to get back in gear and get ready for some more conventionalising and festivalisation ! To wit : This week, from the 2nd until the 6th of March, the Italian city of Bologna is all abuzz with the new edition of the Bilbolbul [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 14, 2011
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Media Comics give us a short video taster of some of the comics creators who were at the recent Angoulême BD festival in France: Un aperçu du FIBD d’Angoulême 2011 from Media Comics on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 2, 2011
English-speaking public with very particular ideas about what comics should be. Or the Anglophone publishers in Angoulême. Alex Bowler from Random House had come to Angoulême looking for direct contacts. As a British publisher, he faces great competition from US firms, who often buy the rights to a book for the whole world and not [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 20, 2011
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The website (including an English language version) for this year’s edition of the BilBOlBul international comics festival in Bolgona, Italy, is now up. The festival boasts a plethora of exhibitions – including art from Tove Jannson, Emile Bravo and Brecht Evens – panels, workshops, multi media events and much more.
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Our monthly overview of comics festivals in Europe is a bit shorter than we would like it to be this time. However, it’s quite understandable – after all, who in his right mind is going to put up another festival in the same month as that behemoth of comics fests: the annual Festival de la [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 7, 2010
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Even though we’re probably all head over heels involved in that yearly madness that is the Festive Season, some brave souls are putting up comics festivals and events all over Europe. Albeit a very little group of brave souls – there’s just been one major event and another follows hard on its heels : The [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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Last week the Grand Wizards that rule the World of Angoulême decreed their traditional longlists of the best comics of 2010, the best comics for young readers, and the Sélection patrimoine, which roughly translates as books that should not be forgotten. These lists are easily the most important in the Francophone comics world, and even [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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We are a tad late with our monthly update on comics festivals on the continent, but then, you probably were all to busy with Comica this weekend, so it’s probably not too bad. And so : In the weekend of the 13th and 14th November, Bulles en Seine throws its annual Comics and Children’s Books [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 1, 2010
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Another month, and another slew of comics festivals across Europe (or mostly France, as luck will have it). The Polish city of Lodz kicks off the month with the 21st edition of its International Comics and Game Festival (October 1-3). Central event in this festival is an exhibition ‘Masters of Polish comic art’ which features [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 13, 2010
OuBaPo, the Workshop for Potential Comics, is alive and kicking ! This philosophy or even aesthetic concept of comics as a result of games and constraints, originated in 1992 within the group of authors around the French publishing house, L’Association (with people like Gilles Ciment or Etienne Lécroart). It quickly found international following, more particularly [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 10, 2010
After the summer holidays, it would seem that a new comics festival season is in full effect all over Europe. Here is a selection of some of the comics/bande dessinee fairs and festivals that will vie for your attention over the next few weeks in Europe: Brussels celebrates its ninth Comics Festival on the weekend [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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During the month of October, right from the 1st through to the 31st to be precise, the third edition of the Bi-annual Festival of Contemporary Art will take place in the French city of Le Havre. This edition will focus on the relationships between comics and contemporary art as they currently exist. The Festival acknowledges [...]
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