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Nice Art: Rokuro Taniuchi
Rokuro Taniushi is a Japanese illustrator of the 50's on who has been called "the kawaii Norman Rockwell of Japan" for painting some 1300 covers for the influential weekly magazine Shukan Shincho. Kawaii is the "cute" style of Japanese art, seen and deconstructed in everything from Hello Kitty [read more]
Blacksad is back in BLACKSAD: A SILENT HELL
BLACKSAD by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido is a famous comic in Europe, but the recent Dark Horse collection has created an American audience, as well: there are more than 20,000 copies of the book in print and a fourth printing is planned. Blacksad's success isn't horribly puzzling: [read more]
Must reads: two view of Angoulême
The recently concluded Angoulême comics festival is the most respected comics event in the world, but also one a bit remote from the daily comics grind of the average American reader. Two con reports will bring you up to speed in a hurry. Before we link one note: I [read more]
Angoulême wrap up: Jean-Claude Denis wins Gran Prix; Jim Woodring wins Special Jury Prize
Last week's Angoulême festival extravaganza wrapped up with the presentation of the Grand Prix to Jean-Claude Denis, whose career goes back to the 70s but is perhaps best known in France for Luc Leroi. The Grand Prix is presented for a lifetime body of work -- Denis is [read more]
TCAF unveils guests: Bechdel, Smith, Ba, Moon and more
The 2012 Toronto Comic Arts Festival has just unveiled it's first guests and it's as eclectic lineup of stellar creators from around the world, including Alison Bechdel, Jeff Smith Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, Guy Delisle, Kate Beaton, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Jason, and others from around the world.
The festival [read more]
Preview: CURSE OF THE WENDIGO by Mathieu Missoffe and Charlie Adlard
Although you'd think he was busy enough drawing THE WALKING DEAD every month, artist Charlie Adlard occasionally has time to toss off something like CURSE OF THE WENDIGO (reviewed here) a horror comic written by French screenwriter Mathieu Missoffe and released in France in 2009. The story is [read more]
The Freelance Life: Making it in webcomics in Romania
The Romanian webcomic Fredo and Pid'jin, has been a big success for its creators Eugen Erhan and Tudor Muscalu, this piece at Next Web tells us, if by success you mean lots of links on Reddit and Digg. What emerges is the story of two guy with [read more]
Must Read: PEN profiles Zapiro
South African cartoonist Zapiro is famous for his sharply observant cartooning and also for standing up to constant and onerous political pressures because of his observations. Most famously he was sued by the Prime Minister of South Africa for defamation—but as this profile at PEN.org shows, he's always been [read more]
Josh Neufeld’s “Bahrain: Lines in Ink, Lines in the Sand”
New at Cartoon Movement today, Josh Neufeld's Bahrain: Lines in Ink, Lines in the Sand Josh Neufeld, a true story set during Bahrain's short lived Pearl Revolution about two two young Bahraini editorial cartoonists named Mohammed and Sara who see the events from opposite sides. This is an excellent, [read more]
Beat Holiday Giveaway I KILLED ADOLF HITLER
When you think of Scandinavia you think of cliches like austere and laconic and fatalism -- all words which apply to the work of Norwegian cartoonist Jason. The cliches happen to be true but in the happiest, freshest way. As you can tell by reading his blog, Jason is [read more]
The beginning of a new comic era…with track suits
An article in The Gauntlet, the University of Calgary's student magazine, boldly proclaimsThe beginning of a new comic era -- and Calgary's Maad Sheep Productions are just the guys to do it. What the article does not mention is that in order to flourish, comics creators must dress like [read more]
Actual Asian person Ken Watanabe potentially offered role in AKIRA remake
The long on-again, off-again life action Akira movie is decidedly on again at Warners, with Jaume Collet-Sera to direct Steve Kloves script. Given that AKIRA is a worldwide classic of anime and Japanese film in general that hugely influenced both animation and the cyberpunk movement, it seems ripe for reinvention [read more]
Persepolis showing creates uproar in Tunisia
Comics and related cartoons continue to cause problems in the Middle East. Tunisia, the country widely credited with setting off the "Arab Spring" in a relatively peaceful fashion earlier this year, is in an uproar after Marjane Satrapi's animated film was shown last month and immediately set off a huge [read more]
To Do (Saturday/at any Hampton hotel/your living room)
This weekend is Portfolio Day at The Center for Cartoon Studies. Prospective students cram into the Colodny for a day of tours, faculty talks and portfolio reviews. Their age range is all over the place, fourteen years of age to fifty. Some don't want to come to the school but [read more]
Isabel Greenberg wins the 2011 Graphic Short Story Prize
Isabel Greenberg's "Love in a Very Cold Climate" -- the story of lovers repelled by polar magnetism -- has won the 2011 Graphic Short Story prize given out by the Observer/Comica/Vintage Books.
London-Based Greenberg has contributed previously to Nobrow and Solipsistic Pop. The story is part of [read more]
Convention report: Dave Roman on Quai des Bulles
Imagine a cartoonist-centric comic convention, held in city that is equal parts Kiki’s Delivery Service and the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, and you get a small taste of what it’s like to attend Quai des Bulles. You would have to consume many delicious butter-filled pastries to get the [read more]
French satirical cartoon magazine firebombed after showing Mohammed
Only yesterday word that Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine, was planning to run a a special "Sharia issue" guest edited by the prophet Mohammed.
"What could possibly go wrong?" we were planning to write. [read more]
350 million copies later, Uderzo retires from drawing Asterix
He is perhaps the last great legacy cartoonist still working on his original creation. But at age 84, Alberto Uderzo, co-creator of ASTERIX, one of the world's most popular comics, is hanging up his drawing pen, citing fatigue. [read more]
RIP Sergio Bonelli
Sergio Bonelli, an Italian comics writer turned publisher, has died at age 79. As a writer Bonelli took over writing the popular strip Tex from his father, Gian Luigi Bonelli, and went on to create Zagor (with Gallieno Ferri) and Mister No. As publisher, [read more]
Wooo-ah! Lots of now TINTIN stills
And we do mean STILLS. Still not quite feeling it, but obviously this is going to be a labor of love that tries to capture the feeling of the books.
Produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Steven Spielberg, the all-mocap TINTIN opens this Christmas, starring Jaime Bell, Daniel Craig, [read more]