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

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

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:

17 March, first Comic Day

17 March, first Comic Day

The poster is the work of Francesc Capdevila, Max, winner of the first National Comic Prize in 2007. The initiative that led to the declaration of 17 March as Comic Day was born on 11 July 2022 from a proposal by the Minister of Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta "to promote the sector,

Enrich, a cartoonist of Bruguera's first period, dies

Enrich, a cartoonist of Bruguera's first period, dies

El Caco Bonifacio /Enrich. Tío Vivo nº 112 of August 26, 1959. "The humorist cartoonist Enric de Manuel González "Enrich" has just left us today February 12, 2023 at the age of 93 (DEP)". With this message from the author's Twitter account, managed by a family member, the death of the cartoonist Enrich