CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from February 12 to February 18, 2011:

1. Borders, a key player in the bookstore surge for comics over the last decade and perhaps the friendlier and more aggressive of the two major retail chains in terms of throwing a spotlight on manga, declares bankruptcy. A massive number of stores are likely to close as the chain adjusts to not just its own debt situation but to the changing realities of brick and mortar retail.

2. Comic Relief announces its closure. Comic Relief was an iconic second-generation comics store, the kind opened by fan-retailers that worked in one of the first wave, both correcting the established model and building on it. Its co-founder and driving force Rory Root died in 2008 without proper documentation as to his wishes for the place, leading to a rolling series of disputes between the family and the folks long and widely acknowledged as Root's ownership and management successors. A new store run by three friends of Root will employ its clerks, host its cats and use its backstock, hopefully serving the fertile-for-comics-reading Berkeley area with the same elan.

3. Just days after the dismissal of a similar cast in a New York-based federal district court, the Stan Lee Media Lawsuit against Stan Lee is revived in a California court with complainants that are court-acknowledged representatives and a strong focus on Stan Lee's actions in Fall 1998 when his claims for rights to various Marvel characters were assigned, negotiated, acknowledged.

Winner Of The Week
Dan Merritt

Loser Of The Week
Anyone that takes it upon themselves to harass or threaten an artist for expressing an idea, no matter how much they may dislike it.

Quote Of The Week
"What made the Canada Reads discussion so dismaying though was that most of the jurors didn’t go after the book for its flaws or take sufficient note of its virtues; instead they preferred to dismiss it outright as a graphic novel." -- Jeet Heer


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today's cover is from the great comic book series Four-Color

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