Category: Comic cons

The convention’s organizers stated AI-generated pieces may be displayed but not sold at this year’s Art Show.

CXC in Columbus has hired Aleesha Nash as Festival Director and will be moving to a spring date in 2027

It’s my sixth time writing about MICE and I’ve still got things to say. That’s because the annual Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, a free, two-day convention, held in a (once) historic Cadillac showroom on the (now) Boston University campus, is a liquid. It fills the space you put it in. It […]

In the latest update: We may know what the Angoulême 2026 Official Selection could have looked like (and what familiar names made the cut); the Association FIBD responds to mayor Xavier Bonnefont’s accusations; the ADBDA moves forward; the Inter-Org BD coalition gives an update; no more Fauve; meetings taking place […]

Black Comic Lords are hosting their first-ever virtual comic con

Angoulême 2026 cannot go ahead. In a message from his lawyers, Franck Bondoux places the blame for the festival’s cancellation entirely on public funders, and demands to have his company 9e Art+ remain as festival organiser for the 2027 event

The Beat sat down with Formisano at Thought Bubble Comics Art Festival 2025 to discuss his experience working on NIGHTS.

Embattled Angoulême Festival organiser 9e Art+ has officially put production of the 2026 event on indefinite hold

Mollie Ray’s exceptional debut graphic novel Giant is a strikingly intimate and emotional look at nostalgia, illness and healing, told with a deft and gentle hand that lead to one of the best comics of last year. Recently reprinted into a brand new paperback, Ray has gone on to be […]

The person whose allegations against Angoulême Festival operator 9e Art+ shook the French comics industry this year has waived her anonymity and spoken out