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January 10, 2009


CR Week In Review

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The top comics-related news stories from December 21, 2008 to January 9, 2009

1. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer looks likely to close after being offered up for sale, taking with it David Horsey's long-time platform, two pages-plus of newspaper strips

2. Second round of book publishing firings begin with the dismissal of Pantheon Publisher Janice Goldklang.

3. Wizard Entertainment postpones one 2009 show, kills another.

Winners Of The Week
People looking for easy reasons to hate book publishing.

Losers Of The Week
All the cartoonists for whom a place in the P-I was one of the jewels of their strip placement lists.

Quote Of The Week
"Watchmen is about the tawdry life of superheroes who have been rejected by their society." -- Michael Cieply, New York Times. I can't believe I ever thought that was difficult. Thank you, potentially extinct soon paper of record! (thanks, Gil)

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