CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from January 14 to January 20, 2012:

1. A week of fundamental change and recognition of same across the comics industry. As Tundra crosses the 500-client plateau, Alan Gardner takes a look at those strips that are operating at that level, even as a Herblock Foundation releases a report that paints a picture of the editorial cartooning side of newspaper comics as a vocational Dresden. Meanwhile, R Stevens releases an e-book free of any kind of DRM-related hassles to copying same, and IDW announces a digital only comics series with one of its licenses.

2. Occasional comics-uploading site Megaupload is shut down with the cooperation of US and New Zealand authorities, with some of its operators arrested and/or held for extradition, capping a week of battles on the SOPA/PIPA bills that has seen the tide turn mostly against them.

3. Prominent 1980s British and American independent comics illustrator Brett Ewins stabs a police officer and suffers head injuries in the melee that develops as a result in a tragic-sounding weekend incident. The official quoted in the original news story came across as deeply worried about Ewins as well as the injured officer.

Winner Of The Week
Richard Thompson, always classy, announcing with great humility and humor that he's taking a month or so away from Cul De Sac in order to facilitate some focused rehabilitation work due to his Parkinson's.

Losers Of The Week
The journalists that allowed the statement of a defendant in a civil case brought by the cartoonist Zunar to be described as that of a witness, skewing the headline and the all-important first graph of a news story for little to no reason I can tell.

Quote Of The Week
"I just want to make comics until I can't hold a pen anymore. Then I'll try my feet." -- Oliver East

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today's cover is from the thriving, small-press independent comics scene of the 1980s and 1990s

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