CR Week In Review



The top comics-related news stories from October 14 to October 20, 2006:

1. Three significant passings: the strip pioneer Hilda Terry, the longtime Playboy cartoon editor Michelle Urry, the graphic memoirist Miriam Engelberg.

2. Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar announce their departure from L'Association.

3. Fantagraphics announces the opening of a Seattle Fantagraphics store.

Winner of the Week
Chuck Mason, for keeping on a story he could easily drop.

Losers of the Week
Anyone who was hoping for anything useful or interesting to come out of an editorial cartooning spotlight at the United Nations that stressed the responsibilities editorial cartoonists have (good) but basically defined this in terms of tempering opinion to meet public standards (bad).

Quote Of The Week
"One day in the late 1950s Robert Hughes was sitting in the offices of the Observer, an Australian magazine modelled on the London Spectator for which he did drawings and occasionally a book review, when the editor burst into the room and announced, 'I've just fired the art critic.' He followed this with a question: 'Anyone here know anything about art?' There was silence. The editor's eye fell on the youthful Hughes. 'You're the cartoonist,' he snapped, 'You ought to know something about art. Good. Well, now you're the f------ art critic.' And thus was his life's vocation decided." -- From Martin Gayford's review of Robert Hughes' memoir.

Crockett Johnson was born 100 years ago this week
 
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