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“Aurora and the Orc” is Lewis Trondheim’s gag-a-page series starring a child-eating Orc who just came to a new world and is now going to school. Yes, it’s a ridiculous premise and, yes, it’s very funny. I don’t know when this originally ran, but this collection by First Second due out in June contains three…
For those of you tracking the next Asterix movie, due out Christmas 2026, here’s the new movie poster: I like it. Obelix confusing a rhino for a wild boar is funny. It makes perfect sense. I’m glad the next movie is going to be animated. That’s the only way to make an Asterix movie worth…
Remember “Orbital,” the beautiful science fiction series from Sylvain Runberg and Serge Pellé? They’re back with volume 9, titled “Secession.” It’s only the French edition so far, but I’m sure Cinebook will get to it eventually. I saw a positive review of it on ActuaBD.com. I mention it now because time flies. The last volume…
Terry Nantier has sold the company off to Ablaze, which makes sense. I was a much bigger fan of NBM twenty years ago when I first got into Franco-Belgian books. They printed more books at full size, and more books that I actually wanted to read. I’m thinking specifically of Lewis Trondheim’s Mr. O and…
It has to be this January release, “Mickey Mouse and the Pirate King“: Story by Joris Chamblain and art by Pipeline favorite, Dav. Even better, he’s drawing both Mickey AND Uncle Scrooge in this book. I’m running out of places to beg Fantagraphics to translate and publish this one here in North America. However, their…
Parc Asterix added a new ride, C’etautomatix, in August 2025. It looks like a lot of fun. The park is closed for the season now, but this should give you something to look forward to in the spring. As an Asterix fanboy, the whole park looks like a lot of fun, of course. I hold…
No, not to comics. It’s the next animated movie. The fact that it’s partially set in Africa means we definitely won’t be seeing it distributed in theaters around here, ever. Those caricatures will never survive any distributor who considers buying it. Let’s hope a streamer is brave enough eventually. On the bright side, it looks…
I don’t think I’ve covered it here in any great detail, but FIBD (a/k/a Angouleme) is always a rambunctious affair filled with threats of boycotts. Thankfully, we have Dean Simons around to cover the whole situation, and his most recent article explains everything very well. Put simply, nobody likes the organization (and particularly its owner)…
You may remember the article I wrote here in 2024 about the theft of original art from “Blake and Mortimer.” It got a lot of attention in the French press, and has never reached a satisfying conclusion. Art meant to be archived has reached the open market and there’s likely no putting the genie back…
Once upon a time, I was a big Disney Duck Comics reader. That was basically the decade of the 90s, in the glory days of Don Rosa and William Van Horn. I was also a letterhack at the time and had dozens of letters printed in those letters columns. Recently, David Gerstein pointed out a…