CR Week In Review



The top comics-related news stories from January 26 to February 1, 2008:

1. Matt High reveals in a livejournal entry that Cold Cut closed down around Christmas and will re-open this month in Illinois with new owners.

2. Incredibly positive Angouleme Festival ends in France, with Shaun Tan's The Arrival taking best album and Dupuy and Berberian sharing the Grand Prix.

3. Vertigo's popular Y The Last Man series comes to an end, as an increasingly tpb-dominant sales model and a press to serve copyrighted material calls into question how many similarly popular creator-owned series there will be in the immediate future.

Winner Of The Week
Dupuy et Berberian

Loser Of The Week
Cartoonists in Turkey

Quote Of The Week
"Long story short, part of which has been covered here before: DC has a clause that prevents folks from writing and drawing material unless said person is on the payroll or incorporated. Fear of lawsuits from freelancers claiming their work-for-hire entitles them to ownership of Batman or whatever the hell under some newly-inaugurated copyright laws or whatever the hell. I guess based on DC's history they fully expect people to try to do whatever underhanded thing they can to chisel money and ownership of other people's characters when the opportunity even vaguely arises. Or whatever the hell." -- Evan Dorkin

this week's imagery comes from pioneering comic book house Hillman Publications
 
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