CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from February 14 to February 20, 2015:

1. Brett Ewins, RIP.

2. With TCAF announcing and CCI opening up for badges, it's con prep season in full with the con season itself to surge to full life in a month with Emerald City.

3. The selective harassment that Zunar has seen in Malaysia is starting to have wider political implications, and it's about time.

Winner Of The Week
It's hard not to like the Ariell Johnson story.

Loser Of The Week
This is a little late, but the assault on the press by sitting government officials in multiple regions of the world is one of the horrid things right now. So any official that sues a newspaper or a journalist or a cartoonist or supports that kind of thing with the idea that there's some sort of inherent honor and prestige in holding office beyond what you bring to it, you're on this site's loser list.

Quote Of The Week
"This one reminds me of the time the Canadian cartoonist Seth observed that Bill Watterson's works 'didn't mean anything to me' during an interview at the AV Club; from some of the reactions in the comments you'd swear he'd burned the American flag. And yet Watterson commands great institutional respect as a classicist, a quality entertainer -- and who's to say Bill Griffith hews to the same opinions he had 16 years ago?" -- Jog, whose column was the only thing to come out of a really dumb Guardian article this week on funnybooks and the purpose of art within them.

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

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