Helsinki Comics Festival 2011

From www.sarjakuvafestivaalit.fi comes news of the Helsinki Comics Festival 2011. This promises to be a very exciting couple of days! Book your plane tickets now! The 26th Helsinki Comics Festival will take place on the 16th - 18th of September 2011 at Lasipalatsi Square and nearby ... Read More

TCAF">Joe Decie on TCAF

I've been aware of TCAF for a while, but I've never visited. For a first-hand account of this year's festival, I turned to Joe Decie and asked him a handful of questions. (Image by Eric Orchard) What is TCAF? TCAF is a two day comics ... TCAF">Read More

L’Association Strike announcement

One of the main stories from this year's Angouleme festival was L'Association's current strike action. I couldn't find a translation of the strike announcement, so I've run it through Google Translate and cleaned up the tenses a bit, so this isn't a perfect translation, ... Read More

Andrew Salmond Interview

If you like comics and have ever been to London, the chances are that you already know of Gosh Comics. Andrew Salmond, manager of Gosh agreed to answer some questions for the Snapshot Interviews 1 / Can you introduce yourself? What is your background? Well, I’m ... Read More

Comical Animal Launched!

I should have posted this long ago, but being a very slack blogger means I didn't. What makes it worse is that not only am I a contributor, but also helped Jim out in a technical capacity, utilising my wordpress-wrangling skills. My apologies. Anyway; ... Read More

World Comics India

Head over to the World Comics India site to look at some superb Wallposter Comics - informational comics created by communities that deal with local issues, including corporal punishment in schools; The school teachers of Maharajganj in Uttar Pradesh are a worried lot. Gone are the ... Read More

How to build a comics culture in India

Barath Murthy writes up some thoughts on how to build a successful Indian comics publishing scene here; This essay is a presentation of my views on the comics medium in India, and my solution for the growth of the form. These ideas are the result of the last few years spent trying to understand ... Read More

We Love You So, Jordan Crane

Get over to We Love You So and read up a great interview with Jordan Crane of 'Uptight' fame. A lot of covered in this interview, from Maurice Sendak to The Simpsons to target audiences; When I’m writing something I usually have a particular person ... Read More

Angoulême 2010

Paul Gravett writes an article on Angouleme 2010. I really want to get to this. Really badly. It’s that time of year again when people start making their ‘Best of the Year’ lists. When it comes to comics, I’ll be doing mine quite soon, as well ... Read More

Women In Comics Conference Round-up

I spent the day yesterday at the Women in Comics conference at the New Hall Art Collection in Cambridge. What follows is a brief skim through the notes I took during the sessions I sat in on. I couldn't make it to every session as there were parallel sessions, but I'm assured that they were ... Read More