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In France, the production of comic book volumes in print has increased for the seventeenth year, according to Gilles Ratier, secretary general of ACBD. In a report that points out economic difficulties, confluct between publishers and creators, and the rise of digital, 5565 new comic books were published in 2012, up 4.28% on the 4109 published[...]

French comic anthology Spirou has announced its Christmas double-sized special, issue 3895. In which, amongst many Christmas stories give us Céline

Chris Thompson writes for Bleeding Cool; My love affair with Hugo Pratt‘s Corto Maltese really took hold on my most recent trip to Italy. Although beloved

The French bookstore chain Cultura has replaced FNAC as the main sponsor of the world's largest and most prestigious comics convention. This represents a

Swipe File hist the international courts! Look how a decent judicial system works… Dargaud sued Delcourt in France for a comic biography of EP Jacobs, author of Dargaud-published Blake & Mortimer series, that apparently had a cover which was "too close" to the Blake & Mortimer covers. The cover in question on the left and a standard[...]

In the European Union, Popeye went into the public domain back in 2009, but not in the US It seems to be down to Popeye being labelled work for hire in

Albert Uderzo, who has recent stepped down from the comic series he co-created, Asterix, is about to find his earliest work revisited. Philippe Cauvin and

Reportedly this is for a sum worth 220 million Euros ($275 million, £175 million), and the deal will include Tintin and Corto Maltese publisher Casterman. You can see why it has taken a little time to finalise. The deal will, if it all goes through, create one of the largest publishers in the industry in France. By[...]

Yes, folks, this is how the French are advertising their publication of Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson's Beasts Of Burden.

We've all seen and enjoyed the Augmented Reality that Marvel has been introducing into its comics of late. But that's nothing, as usual, compared to what

Due to legal issues, the French shop Comics Zone in Lyon that specialises in American comics held its Avengers Vs X-Men party last Saturday . They ran an

Abby Denson writes for Bleeding Cool. Hi, I'm Abby DENSON. This is my third year at Angouleme. So far, I'm making good on my vow to come every year, and

Webcomics are not that popular in France yet We have a lot of "blog BD" famous and succesfull but few of them actually tell a continuing storyline Close Call Comics' SAGA And sadly Angoulême did not give a lot of room for "american comics" (I mean mainstream super-heroes tale) this year, besides Panini's booth[...]

Le Cowabunga, dude. This is how a French comic book publisher promotes their new oversized Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle graphic novel. By delivering it in

Xavier Lancel of SCARCE magazine, writes for Bleeding Cool; In seven hours time, the worlds biggest comics convention begins, Angoulême in France And SCARCE Magazine wants people to celebrate Ernie COLON As last year, SCARCE, a french magazine about US comics, published since 1983, will soon attend the 39th International Bandes Dessinées Festival in Angoulême (in France). And[...]

Massive french publisher Gallimard are in the process of buying French group Falmmarion, which currently belongs to an Italian company. Now, Flammarion

These are typically 48-72 page colour hardcover volumes. While there are 310 comic book publishers in France, four of them, Media Participations, Delcourt, Glenat and Flammarion take almost half the business, with Delcourt at number one after the purchase of rival publisher Le Soleil. The best selling title was the long awaited XIII volume 20 by Yves[...]

Courtesy of French site MooLooZone, What If... Herge Created The X-Men?

The Day Of The Mayflower will be released in France by Dargaud on November 18th, and is expected to sell around half a million copies. Here is a preview of the twentieth volume of the French spy thriller comic, XIII – four years after the previous volume and[...]

Media Participations is the biggest comic book publishersin France The third biggest publisher of any material And the parent company of Dargaud, Le Lombard and Depuis. Well, Media Participations is as vulnerable to the changing market as anyone One bright spark there has noted how smaller French publisher Sandawe has had some success with a Kickstarter-style[...]

These Gauls are crazy. Created by French office workers in their lunch break...

Bleeding Cool reported recently that Media Participations had grabbed the rights from Panini to publish DC Comics titles in France And had employees of Panini e-mailing in to find out more. Well, as Paris Comic Con opens today, it's been announced Dargaud, owned by Media Participations, and recognised as the largest comics publisher in France, will[...]

Panini is a monster of a worldwide comics publisher, publishing Marvel titles in almost all territories, and DC rights in a number  as well. Well, it appears that Panini will be losing the rights to publishing DC and Vertigo comics in France, one of the biggest and certainly the most prestigious comics markets in the world. It's[...]

A major French comic book series is in need of an artist. Tanguy And Laverdure is the most famous aviation comics series in France.It was created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Asterix's Albert Uderzo Asterix, and later drawn by and Jijé, the man who taught Moebius. So, you know, no pressure. It has generated a TV series and a[...]

One of the bigger French comics publishers, Delcourt has just bought a majority share in another of the bigger French comics publishers, Soleil. Together, that sees Delcourt leapfrog competitor Glenat in terms of size, becoming the largest independent comics publisher in France by far Of course, they are smaller than Media Participations who own Dargaud, Lombard[...]

Bleeding Cool has catalogued a number of the woes of French alternative comics publisher , as it has seen mainstream publishers take over the kind of

This is the Abu Dhab branch of the Angoulême's Comics Museum opening a subsidiary opening in 2014. Championed by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, it would be an

The current artist of the long running Belgian/French comics series Black And Mortimer, André Juillard, has a problem. He needs pictures of Oxford train

Legendary comic book creator Lewis Trondheim has posted a number of pages from his upcoming expose on the L'Association comics publisher on his blog. Here

Denis Robert is a French investigative journalist who revealed the first Clearstream fianncial instituition money laundering scandal ten years ago. Since