Europe

France

Culture

Guillaume Canet (Tell No One, Little White Lies) will direct the next live action Asterix film, Asterix and the Silk Road. Link (01/11/19, French, LT)

The official selection of albums entered into competition at the 2020 Angoulême Festival has been revealed. Link (21/11/19, French, LT)

Germany

Culture

The Wilhelm Busch award 2019 goes to Isabel Kreitz; her exhibition is shown in Wiedensahl until April 2020. Link (18/11/2019, German, MdlI)

Research

A workshop on the history of Hamburg in comics took place in Hamburg on the 14th November. Link (04/11/2019, German, MdlI)

A collected volume on Geschichte und Mythos in Comics und Graphic Novels, edited by Tanja Zimmermann, has recently been published by Bachmann. Link (07/11/2019, German, MdlI)

A workshop on “Practices of Reading Comics” took place in Berlin on the 29th and 30th November. Link (21/11/2019, English, MdlI)

The book, Comicanalyse. Eine Einführung, authored by Stephan Packard, Véronique Sina, Lukas R. A. Wilde, Andreas Rauscher, Jan-Noël Thon and Janina Wildfeuer, has been published by Metzler. Link (25/11/2019, German, MdlI)

Switzerland

Culture

A Tom Tirabosco exhibition is being shown in Basel until the 8th March 2020. Link (11/11/2019, German, MdlI)

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Correspondents: Martin de la Iglesia (MdlI, Germany and Switzerland) and Lise Tannahill (LT, France).

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