Minnesota cartoonists mobilise to denounce ICE abuse

Minnesota cartoonists mobilise to denounce ICE abuse

The Minnesota cartoonists have launched an initiative to publicise and expose ICE abuses and called on other artists to share what they are seeing in their own communities. American cartoonist K. Woodman-Maynard came up with the idea after publishing a piece in The Washington Post about her experience living in Minneapolis with the ... Read more

Dupuis publisher withdraws Spirou album for racist and sexist depictions

Spirou

At the end of last month, the publisher Éditions Dupuis announced the withdrawal of some 30,000 copies of the album"Spirou et la Gorgone bleue" with drawings by Dani and script by Yann and apologised for its publication. On Thursday 31 October, the publisher reacted to a wave of criticism and accusations on social ... Read more

The Weekly Supplement Hora Cero available for downloading.

Hora Cero

Ahira (Archivo Histórico de Revistas Argentinas), is an interesting project that makes freely and freely available to the public digitised collections of magazines and periodicals, with their complete indexes, and access to the critical articles that have them as a reference. A good part of these publications are comics. If in 2019 they ... Read more

The Illumination of Jim Woodring (2019)

The Illumination of Jim Woodring (2019)

This documentary by Chris Brandt explores the mystical and award-winning work of American comic book creator, cartoonist and painter Jim Woodring. An artist who has astonished the world for three decades, he has also suffered from hallucinations and hyperrealistic visions since he was a child, eventually diagnosed as autism and prosopagnosia. His dreamlike ... Read more

Bill Blackbeard, the man who saved comics

Bill Blackbeard

This is a frequent reference to Bill Blackbeard and, as you will see, this is no exaggeration. An exhibition, curated by Ann Lennon and Caitlin McGurk and opening in November 2022, on view until 7 May this year at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus, Ohio, bears the same name: ... Read more