The last turn in events with the Angoulême festival drama is news that the former organizer, 9eArt+, has been placed in judicial liquidation by the Commercial Court of Angoulême. 9eArt+ also reveals that it is €1.6 million in debt. This development is not related to the legal battle between 9eArt+ and l’Association pour le développement […]
The Angoulême International Comics Festival is largest comic festival in the world. It has been held annually in January in Angoulême France since 1974. The conflicts that are unfurling now in the news were sown in the early ’00s. This article tries to encapsulate the pivotal moments that led to the cancellation of the 2026 […]
If you think that headline is confusing, buckle up. Today, on the first day of the new indie Angoulême festival, Le Grand Off (organized to replace the canceled 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival), the Association FIBD, along with disgraced 9e Art+ festival manager Franck Bondoux, announced they will sue the Association for the Development of […]
This Ann Telnaes panel coincides with a fascinating report last night on “All Things Considered” that made me really miss the business beat.Ann is correct that the Trump Family Industries are benefiting from Papa Schtrumpf being in the White House, not surprising since he ran for office to swell his personal prestige, rather than out […]
As I write this, Irma is working her way through the South and Jose is brewing and Katia is out there and there’s probably no good time to talk about hurricanes, unless you wait until after the season ends.At which point we won’t care anymore and we’ll go back to talking about the next Bachelor […]
Sandra Bell Lundy breaks through the moldy Mother’s Day cartoons with this Between Friends salute to non-average moms.Obviously, it helps that she had already created a non-average parental situation which had previously addressed a real-life issue, rather than simply settling into the Mom-Dad-Bud-and-Sis pre-fab cartoon model.My feed is full of strips that offer up gags […]
Local editorial cartoons are a great reason newspapers ought to employ their own cartoonists and not rely on syndicated material, and here the Chron’s Nick Anderson focuses on the flooding that has devastated Houston for a second straight spring and, as the markers on the door tell, several others as well.At this stage, Anderson only notes […]
Even if you’re not into sports, today’s Tank McNamara raises an interesting issue: NY Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul blew up his hand in a July 4 firecracker accident last summer and the extent of the damage was not clear until ESPN got hold of his medical records. (Apparently, Pierre-Paul was not simply shutting out […]
In his nearly-eponymous strip, Harry Bliss raises an issue that has been on my mind for a very long time but happened to surface recently.There are all kinds of issues to sort out within the context of having children later in life.The financial ones are kind of weird to me, because I’ve never much felt […]
Rina Piccolo has posted an excellent two-part blog entry about creating a sales kit for a syndicated comic, in her case, “Tina’s Groove.” (Part One and Part Two)This is something that comes up after the strip has been accepted at the syndicate and after the cartoonist has been through the development process, which is when […]
This blog is generally chicken one day and feathers the next. This was definitely a day of chickens, with such a banquet of good stuff that I had to eliminate some that would have been the only focus on another day.Let’s start with some interesting beginnings: “Mark Trail” is not generally known for incisive storytelling […]