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The director of the French publication
Tournesol, one of the longest-running Christian comics in the world, will be
retiring next month. Swiss comics producer
Jefko (Jean-Frédéric Kohler) has been in charge of the magazine since 1984.
Ligue pour la Lecture de la Bible (LLB) in
Valence, France, began publishing
Tournesol in October 1960. Jefko was recruited by the previous director,
Claude Gaasch, after Gaasch saw ...
Christian cartoonist
Joonas Sildre from
Tartu, Estonia, has published
Maailma Naba, his first comic book.
"Comic book publishing is a not too common event in Estonia," says Sildre. The comic title translate as
World's Belly Button and is a
"comical story for kids." The story is about
"finding something that's hidden and yet most important thing on Earth." Sildre adds,
"So, you can read into it somewhat of a Christian allegory, influenced by faith." Sildre is
translating the comic to ...
Serenity, the popular Christian manga-style series, is now at
Snokie, a new publishing venture established by creator
Buzz Dixon. Snokie will specialize in
online and print-on-demand (POD) titles.
"We're going to start 'Serenity Sundays,'" says Dixon.
"Every Sunday we'll post online a free 15-page chapter from the original 10 Serenity graphic novels." Snokie will offer
free downloads of lesson plans for ministers and Sunday school teachers who might wish to use
Serenity and other Snokie stories to
help illustrate Biblical points. Snokie will also publish
Hits & Misses, a 480-page
girls sports story that twice had been in the printing queue with a major publisher only to ...
Bestselling
Swiss cartoonist Alain Auderset has moved into an abandoned 19th century church structure and transformed it into an artists' workshop in
Saint-Imier. The building is now filled with plants, "big graffiti," and a permanent exhibition of Auderset's drawings from his
5 published comic albums.
"This old church, invaded by comic books, has a natural charm," explains Auderset.
"I share these premises with artists from other fields. It motivates me and gives its particular hue to this place." During Auderset's recent all-day Open House event,
his entire local church family was mobilized to be tour guides, serve food, manage traffic and parking, sell Auderset's comics, and operate a gigantic ...
Through the sponsorship of
Bible League, Canada, and in partnership with the Church of Uganda,
NEXT Inc has now
distributed 780,000 of a planned 800,000 copies of Manga Messiah in Uganda. The books have been circulated through schools primarily but also via churches and ministry organizations. During a recent trip to Uganda,
Roald Lidal of NEXT visited five schools and was
"overwhelmed by the impact the books are actually having." One of the Ugandan distributors told Lidal:
"The children don't have any Bibles and most of their parents don't either, so Manga Messiah becomes their Bible. The children often teach their parents, so the books often have a great influence, not only on the children but on their families and communities." Lidal notes that
Muslims have a 40-year goal of turning Uganda into an Islamic nation and ...
Clash Entertainment, Inc. of
Wichita, Kansas USA plans to launch an
entertainment/portal website in June 2010. Their goal is to have a site that is
"so rich and deep with entertaining media that teens will want to visit and stay for sustained amounts of time." The site will be updated daily with
fresh content that will include comics. When the site goes live there will be
over 6 months of accumulated content, so teens will have a lot to explore from the start. Clash plans to publish comics "that have a Christian component or that are family-friendly and produced by Christian creatives." They will have
new comics each day of the week, "Sneak Peeks" of new comics, previously-published Christian comics, and ...
Cartoonist and graphic designer
José Carlos Gutiérrez of
Mexico City, Mexico, has been invited to
COMIX35's Annual Board Meeting in November. He is the first candidate chosen in the ministry's
on-going search for future leaders known as the
"Timothys & Joshuas / Marthas & Priscillas" Project. Gutiérrez was the
1st Prize winner in the Amateur Division of the first
International Christian Comics Competition in 2005 and was able to turn professional as a result. He also received an
Honorable Mention in the
Spanish Christian Comics Competition in 2006. More recently he
organized a team of cartoonists to produce monthly comics for the Christian magazine
Prisma in Mexico.
"José Carlos has shown considerable enthusiasm, interest, and initiative in tackling Christian comics projects," says COMIX35 President
Nate Butler.
"I'm excited about ...
Two new comics
contrasting Creation Science and the Theory of Evolution have been produced in
India and
France. The East Indian illustration studio
Sona&Jacob has released
Revisiting Reason as a
78-page Graphic Novel in e-book form, while French artist
Audrey Ragonnaud has published
Tell Me About The Bible as a
17-page comic available as an e-book or in print.
"As firm believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, we believe in the literal 7-day creation as described in Genesis," Sona&Jacob reports.
"We are alarmed and increasingly distressed by the spread of the evolutionary philosophy in all spheres of life ... It seems a not-so-distant possibility that evolution and its offshoot philosophies will emerge as the religion that unites an increasingly disobedient and rebellious generation." Following the initial release of their GN, Sona&Jacob received
valuable feedback from other Christian cartoonists who are also involved in Creation Science work ...
COMIX35 has incorporated a new
"News & Needs" page into the ministry's
ANIMAX35 website as
a service to Christian animators. The page will cover news about
Christian-themed animations or present "needs" related to Christian-oriented projects. There will also be some
general reporting of activities by Christians in the animation industry. Animators cited in the first listings include
Cedric Hohnstadt, a character designer on the
3-2-1 Penguins! series, and
Lon Waitman, a winner in the
Animations for Web & Mobile Devices Competition in 2006. There is
no charge for approved listings ...
A new
Chasing the Dragon graphic novel is scheduled to be released in March 2010. This latest version of the well-known autobiography of
Protestant missionary Jackie Pullinger is being adapted into comics format by
Chris Spencer in
England and
Toto Winarno of
Indonesia. Spencer is
a veteran scriptwriter who learned his craft on the classic British comic publications
Eagle and
TV21. Winarno has been
drawing comics since 1992 and does illustration work for a number of international clients. The
Chasing the Dragon graphic novel was developed by the
Edge Group UK ...