Readers will hopefully recall that one of the things that distinguishes Fleen from all other webcomics blogs of long standing is that we have a dedicated European reporting desk. He’s back with news of what’s going on upon the Atlantic’s eastern shores.

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Let us catch up.

• Earlier this month, public French TV had a special report on Fric News (Fric being slang for money), in which¹ the reporters checked in with the crowdfunding platforms where a conspiracy-peddling documentary about Covid was able to get funding.

  While Ulule was apologetic, Tipeee was much less so, and that has led some YouTubers to reconsider their use of Tipeee, often moving (or encouraging their patrons to move) to uTip) instead. Webcartoonists have tended to follow YouTubers’ footsteps when joining Tipeee, will they do the same here? We’ll see.

• Speaking of Tipeee, Maliki’s translation of their comic on the matter certainly took some time, but still progressed faster than French justice. Did you note that background joke consisting of a Bisous du Panama (from Panama, with love) postcard? That was referring to Jacques Glénat, founder of the Glénat publishing house, more specifically his name appearing in the then recently revealed Panama Papers.

  Earlier this month, Jacques Glénat pled guilty to charges of tax evasion, and was sentenced to 18 months, fully suspended, as well as a 200,000€ fine, which is on top of seized 470,000€ assets. Boulet only commented: The wonderful world of publishing, episode 94493922.

• Speaking of Boulet, let us follow up on previous coverage): Natalie Nourigat let us know during the summer that she’d be moving to Paris in the end! We at the Fleen French news desk are proud to be in the same country as she now is, and look forward to seeing what she will come up with next and to seeing her more regularly in local conventions.
• Meanwhile, other French national treasure Kéké let us know he’d be going the other way: to Los Angeles to work in animation! Congratulations are in order; my only suggestion would be for him to read Natalie Nourigat’s guide on the matter of course, but also Comme Convenu …
• Finally, Team Maliki recently revealed why their (usual) summer hiatus was extending way beyond the end of August (which was less usual): they have a few projects going, including a big one. The mother is obviously going well, as after the fact she was proud to reveal she had received the vaccine while knowingly pregnant, at a time when recommendations were still in the air. Congratulations to the mother, to the other parent, to eldest Tiko, and to little Tanooki (my own term for them, since they don’t even have a pseudonym yet).

Stay tuned: normally our next report from France will cover Boulet’s first crowdfunding campaign.

As always, we at Fleen thank FSFCPL for his reportage. It’s always welcome and it’s good to get an idea of what’s happening beyond your own corner of the world. As a reminder, you can find all of his previous contributions here.

Spam of the day:

You do need a large number of affiliates to make things work. I was lucky to sign up 3 friends who put in USD$10,000 each and depending from their trade volume, I made an extra USD$1000 to $5000 per month PASSIVELY.

Aside from the redundancy of typing both USD and the $, you are literally describing a pyramid scheme. Go peddle your desperation somewhere else, when your digital god comes crashing down I will have no sympathy for you.

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¹ Among other coverage: the same report also had a segment about the Gateway Pundit and its monetization through Google ads, and I’m sure it’s sheer coincidence that Google demonetized that site mere days before that report aired.

[Editor’s note: I never before realized that when reading quickly, it’s very easy to see demonized in place of demonetized. Seems indicative of something but hell if I know what.]