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British cartoonist Will McPhail, who contributes to the American New Yorker magazine, has been awarded the French 2024 ACBD Comics Critics’ Prize.

Since 2019, the Association of Comic Book Critics and Journalists has rewarded a comic book from an English-speaking country and adapted into French by a French-speaking publisher. The 2024 ACBD Comics Critics’ Prize is awarded to Au-dedans, written and drawn by Will McPhail , published in the United States by Mariner Books and adapted into French by 404 Graphic, with a translation by Basile Béguerie.

Ligne Claire carries the months-old story.

More recent French love for British cartoonists is Posy Simmonds exhibit at the 2025 Angoulême Festival.

Cartoonist, illustrator and writer Posy Simmonds MBE was crowned winner of Angoulême International Comics Festival (FIBD) 2024’s Grand Prix, making her the first British recipient and the fourth woman to be awarded the French lifetime achievement award.

Posy spoke to The Connexion

Reposting a Matt cartoon reason for dismissal.

A housing officer was sacked for being a Reform UK candidate and reposting a Matt cartoon from The Telegraph, according to legal documents obtained by this newspaper.

His bosses even cited his decision to repost a Matt cartoon as grounds for his unsuitability for the £37,000 a year job.

The Telegraph tells the tale. Hmmm, I think Mike Peterson reposts an occasional Matt cartoon here, hope he isn’t applying for a position at the Hightown Housing Association.

Don’t Know Much About Belgian Comics History

But 96 years ago on January 10, 1929 Tintin (and Snowy?) first appeared:

Belgian Cartoonist Georges Remi, best known under his pen name Hergé, struck a chord with his audience when he first published the comic series in 1929 in Le Petit Vingtième, a weekly youth supplement of Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.

Genevieve Savage at Tovima celebrates the occasion.

As of January 1, The Adventures of Tintin entered the public domain in the United States. Nevertheless, it will be another 30 years before it enters the public domain in the European Union because protections in the region remain in effect throughout the life of the creator plus 70 years after their death.

More about the early Tintin at Latterature.

Archive Interview: Comic Artist Martin Asbury

Martin Asbury was one of the biggest names in British comic art in the 1970s. Drawing the comic strip, “Garth” for The Daily Mirror from 1976, he contributed a wealth of dynamic action strips to Look-in between 1973 and 1981, most notably “Kung-Fu“, “The Six Million Dollar Man“, “Dick Turpin“, “Battlestar Galactica” and “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century“.

When Alistair interviewed Martin in February 2008…

Downthetubes re-posts an interview with British cartoonist Martin Asbury.

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  1. You forgot to mention that Le Vingtième Siècle (the 20th Century) in whose weekly youth supplement Le Petit Vingtième (the little 20th), Remi/Hergé first published Titin, was the organ of the Belgian FASCIST party.

    This was in an age when people CALLED themselves fascists and got away with it. Despite the fact that it was an ideological ally, the paper went under after Hitler invaded. Hergé then started drawing Nazi propaganda, was briefly banned right after the good guys won the second world war.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-nazis-took-belgium-tintins-creator-drew-pro-regime-propaganda-180963321/

    1. …I forgot to add, Posy Simmonds is the best female cartoonist in British history.

  2. I still don’t believe that Tintin has become public domain in the U.S. because its first publication here was in 1959, when it, and subsequently the European cartoon series were copyrighted, as have all subsequent reprintings in this country. If using its European date of first issuance is the valid point of U.S. copyright despite this, it means it became public domain in 1957, two years BEFORE it was ever published here! Using the 1959 date, its first period of copyright ran through 1987, whereupon it was automatically renewed for 95 years, so it shouldn’t become public domain until 2082–not 2025. What exactly makes anyone think differently?

    1. “after a period of 95 years from the year of first publication”
      U.S. copyright law doesn’t state ‘in the United States,’ just “year of first publication.”
      Wouldn’t foreign renewals be effective in the U.S.?
      It is all over my head.
      https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap3.html
      “The scope of Federal preemption under this section is not affected by the adherence of the United States to the Berne Convention”
      And was Tintin created as a work made for hire? Would that affect any of this?

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