CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from January 31 to February 6, 2015:

1. 2015 iteration of the FIBD in Angouleme, France, ends without major incident. Riad Sattouf takes home the biggest book prize, his second time taking that honor.

2. Comics were all over the ALA Midwinter prize announcements, including This One Summer becoming the first book to take home a Caldecott Honors award.

3. DC Comics announced the details of their forthcoming soft line reboot emphasizing titles representing diversity in creator, character and style/approach.

Winner Of The Week
Sattouf. My goodness.

Loser Of The Week
I guess Marvel, as much as PR "battles" matter. (They don't really matter.) A nice announcement about a new female character-centric Avengers title featuring the talented creators G. Willow Wilson, Marguerite K. Bennett and Jorge Molina was outstripped by the avalanche of DC material in terms of trending news, and from what I've heard didn't even receive the TV-announcement component of its TV/on-line strategy.

Quote Of The Week
"The first item in each file was something innocuous -- a Reds schedule or an old bill -- as if concealing the true contents of his pornographic comics. No one entered his office except by invitation, and even then, nobody dared go behind his desk. His children had been out of the house for more than 25 years. Concealment was part of the creative process, born of shame and guilt, that he maintained long after there was anyone to hide it from. He needed the fetishized process of secrecy to draw." -- Chris Offutt

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the comic image selected is from the brief but notable 1970s run of Seaboard/Atlas

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