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It's not just DC Comics in America that is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Batman. In France, DC licensor Urban Comics (Dargaud) is going to publish five classic Batman comics in black and white And in French, obviously. Dark Knight Returns, Year One, Dark Victory, Hush and Court of the Owls will all be published in full[...]

Xavier Lancel writes for Bleeding Cool, SCARCE held its usual booth in the Alternative/Small editors section of the FIBD (International Bandes Dessinées Festival) in Angoulême, France, during the four days of this event While feeling the wholeness of the event and how it litterally invades this medieval city is something to experience, if your goal is[...]

2, Ted Stearn (Cornelius) Heritage award: Cowboy Henk by Herr Seele and Kamagurka (Fremok) It is quite possible that Ted Stearn is better known in France now than in his native USA But the big awards went mostly to French and Belgian talent And here's the closing of the festival in its totality… [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4PIKvBNTuQ[/youtube]   [...]

So Alan Moore is one of the three main nominees for the Grand Prix of Angoulême, alongside Bill Watterson and Katsuhiro Otomo. Such an honour, the

One of the amazing regular events at Angouleme is the twenty-four hour comic event, in which comic creators, professionals, amateurs and students all

ComiXology are at Angouleme, and are surveying people passing by the booth... and these are the results so far. And they have Jeremy Nguyen writing and

Bob And Bobette is a classic Belgian comic strip. It looks like this. Or rather it did. Because it's getting a revamp and now looks... like this.   Quite

until now. Guy Delcourt is the head of France's second largest comics publisher Group Delcourt, including Delcourt, Sun, Quadrants, and Tonkam. And ahead of this week's Angoulême Comic Art Festival, he announced on French media this morning that he will be investing in a new comics school in Paris. The aim is to invest in new and upcoming[...]

The Cité du Livre of Aix-en-Provence in France is planning its major exhibition of comic book artwork for the year, their eleventh to date And they have chosen Englishman Alan Moore, the first time they have celebrated a comics writer over an artist or writer/artist. Concentrating on prints and original artwork of his comics, including Eddie[...]

Bleeding Cool is a little freaked by our seeming-clairvoyance here... But Bill Watterson, Katsuhiro Otomo and Alan Moore have won the first round of

The Grand Prix at Angoulême is the highest acclaim any comic book creator can receive in comics. Voted on by the Grand Prix Academy made up of acclaimed

2013 saw the release of Asterix And The Picts, a 35th volume in the long running Asterix series , and became the best selling comic book of the year.

Here are just a few. 5159 comic books were published in France in 2013,  3882 of them brand new, down 7.3% on 2012, the first drop in seventeen years. Of these, the French/Belgian titles 39.3% of new comics against 42.1% in 2012 Manga overtook these for the first time, 40.7% of products against 39.4% last year. But the[...]

The highly regarded prizes given out by the Angoulême Comic Book Festival have, in the past, been criticised for being too insular. Recognising comic book

Angoulême, the best and biggest comic book festival in the Western world, has unveiled it's official selection for its 41st year, a list of what it

The French press get a rather bloody PR pack for the launch of the Crossed Deluxe collection... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRzntxACmR0

This is the French press kit for their new deluxe volume of Crossed, combining the first two series in one hardcover. And delivered to journalists and

One bookstore chain in France reported sales of two hundred thousand on its first day, smashing the previous record set by the French edition of Fifty Shades Of Grey The next day it sold another fifteen thousand in that chain. There were worries that Asterix And The Picts, the first by a creative team featuring neither[...]

Courtesy of Comics Place. The front cover art for Asterix and the Picts, out in three weeks, the first Asterix book not to be drawn by Albert Uderzo, with

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSZUCBSbgUA[/youtube] We looked this project from LeLombard in France last week Well, now we have a trailer and preview of Dan Panosian's new series of graphic novels, John Tiffany. John Tiffany is one of the best bounty hunters in the world: after ten years and fifteen million dollars in the bank[...]

Eric Powell was in France for a film festival and during an interview with MDCU Comics, he revealed that he is currently working on a sequel for his comic series from 2009, Chimichanga. When Wrinkle's Travelling Circus' most adorable little bearded girl trades a lock of her magic beard hair for a witch's strange egg, she[...]

Glénat, one of France's more prominent comics publishers, bought two smaller publishers last week. First Mad Fabrik, a small operation based around the very successful author Midam. The other being the bankrupt small publisher 12 Bis, whose unfortunate circumstances we covered previously, whose best asset is an author named François Bourgeon, a huge star in France[...]

Earlier this year, French comic book publisher 12 BIS is filed for bankruptcy protection. With a wide publishing line, 12 Bis publish among many books,

Wishing I were in Angoulême, the 40th such occasion in France, and the largest comics festival of its kind in the world… Comic book authors knighted by the French Republic were Pénélope Bagieux, Emmanuel Guibert and Jean-Claude Denis, with Culture Minister Aurélie Filipetti on hand to hand out the medals[...]

Delcourt, one of the largest French comics publishers - indeed, one of the largest French publishers - has signed a deal with ComiXology to distribute

Expect those ComiXology Around The World posts on Bleeding Cool to start looking a little different. ComiXology gave announced they are opening a Paris

America has one Free Comic Book Day on May the 4th 2013. So naturally, France has to do two. Inspired by the American event, on the 5th and 6th of April, six of the biggest French comics publishers will, between them, be giving away over a hundred thousand comics across France Comics will be available from Bamboo,[...]

Jacques Tardi has turned down France's highest award for civilians in the New Year's Honours list. He issued the statement; Being fiercely attached to my freedom of thought and creativity, I do not want to receive anything, neither from this government or from any other political power whatsoever I am therefore refusing this medal with the greatest[...]

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has published the first chapter of its biography if Muhammed in comic book form. It is available to buy online for

French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo is to publish a special edition, as a comic book biography of the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad,