Cartoon Festival Developments

August 26th – The Camden Centre most likely to be the London Cartoon Festival venue August 26th – Abstract Associates provide new management team July 14th - Support from the Mayor of London

July – Derren Brown shows interest in getting involved.

June - Cartoon Festival backed by Visit Britain

May - Cartoon Festival backed by Visit London

Angolan Cartoon Festival

SEE! THEY’RE ALL at it now. What looks like quite a big event in the West African country of Angola, the SIXTH Festival of Cartoons and Animation. And it’s being held in the capital city of Luanda.

Wonderful to see the artform celebrated in far-flung corners of the world.

Here’s the Angolan tourism Office’s press release:

Luanda – [...]

Museum for Comic Book Art in France!

COMIC BOOKS will have their own Louvre in a museum that has been established in Angoulème, south-west France.

The Musée de la bande dessinée possibly has the largest collection of comic books and original comic book artwork in the world.

This collection comprises of 8,000 original artworks and more than 110,000 magazines and comic books covering all [...]