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The Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain in Paris is currently showing an exhibition devoted to the work of Moebius, as well as his other pseudonym

The first one was seeing how many different comics they have in France Someone who has never seen the bande désinees section in a Fnac bookshop does not have an idea of the size of the difference between US market (and Brazilian market as well, since I came from there) and[...]

Tim Fish reports from Angoulême for Bleeding Cool Tim Fish here (writer/artist of CAVALCADE OF BOYS and some Marvel bits like in NATION X), reporting on

Earlier this month, Bleeding Cool reported that ex-Dupuis editor Jean Van Hamme would be at Angoulême this year, the first time for twenty years since he

Xavier Lancel writes for Bleeding Cool As we entered our second day at the festival, (and the third one in Angoulême), Abby (Denson), Fred (Harper), Tim

After bribing her with hamburgers, Abby hooked me up with Xavier Lancel, editor of SCARCE, and soon me and Fred were heading to France. Angoulême Comics Festival really is as dreamy as people say it is Held on the rampart ringed hilltop of Angoulême's old town, the festival is everywhere There are tents[...]

And that the working of the company, especially the actions editorial director JC Menu be more transparent. In other Angoulême news, the American Ambassador to France, Charles Rivkin, opened the Peanuts exhibition in the town, with Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand and European Affairs Minister Laurent Wauquiez – who is a real comic book geek. [...]

Abby Denson, creator of Dolltopia, writes for Bleeding Cool, reporting from the world's largest comic convention, Angoulême, happening now! Hi folks, this

In less than two weeks, the biggest comic book convention in the world begins, Angoulême in France. During the four day festival, Virtual Graphics will launch, publishing comics from the two-year-old German webcomics site Zampano, with all strips now running in German, English and French, including work by  David Boller (Kaos Moon, Witchblade, Spider-Man, Elfquest),[...]

French comics magazine Zoo is publishing a free special edition for Angoulême. And, because it's free, they're putting it online in advance too. The cover

Here's the main poster for the Angoulême festival, the largest comics convention t=in the world, taking place in France in the town of Angoulême at the end of the month. It's by last year's Great Prize winner at – and as a result this year's festival's president – Baru. The four figures on the wall are from[...]

Bleeding Cool has previously reported on the closing of the distrubutor for French comics publisher L'Association as the company has reduced its line. Now

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." [...]

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[...]

French comics publisher Ego Comme X has started a new series of on-demand books. The first is a reissue of LES SŒURS ZABÎME, by Aristophane. They plan a

French publisher Ankama is an arm of the gaming company of the same name. You know, they created the popular MMORPG Dofus. So, those are guys with quite a

Translated as "The Unmissable", L'Immanquable is a new French monthly comics magazine, the first new one since the children's comic magazine Tchô started

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[...]

Writer of Image comic Turf, ex-BBC presenter and husband of X-Men First Class screenwriter Jane Goldman, Jonathan Ross has made his next big media move.

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,[...]

The mega-successful French comic book series Lanfuest de Troy has gone on hiatus, Arleston and artist Didier Tarquin will instead spend their year

You may know him from drawing the first third of Chase Variant: One Shot Is All I Need from Image. But in Fenruary, Humanoids are publishing a full

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