CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from March 10 to March 16, 2012:

1. Criminal charges were dropped by the Canadian crown in the manga customs case facing 27-year-old Ryan Matheson. As CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein explains in the linked-to article, the case was a win for the act of coordinating legal efforts for something like this and the decision to face them down, as well as the fact that Matheson avoids criminal charges. It's not a victory in terms of it being less likely that someone is going to get picked up on another, similar, customs-related charge.

2. The very effective editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson will be kept on the Philadelphia Daily News after her employment status was brought into question in another round of "well, we have to let go lots of people" at the beleaguered publication. With the Inquirer announcing the departure of Tony Auth scant days ago, that would have left a top 10 American city with a proud tradition of cartooning without a major, staffed editorial cartoonist.

3. WonderCon kicks off in Anaheim, bringing with it the traditional start of the convention season and the compelling story that the once longtime Bay Area festival may or may not return to the Bay Area. Conventions have become a reliably successful part of the overall constellation of businesses related to comics -- reliable in that there are a lot of them and that the seem to be generally legitimate, not that any of them is ever an easy enterprise.

Winner Of The Week
Matt Bors. That made me happy.

Losers Of The Week
Newspapers that dropped Garry Trudeau's abortion strips. Come on, it's Garry Trudeau. You've known about Garry Trudeau for four decades now.

Quote Of The Week
"When I think of my audience, I like to have good thoughts and think about how lucky I am to have one that is as intelligent as mine and as moral as mine." -- Alan Moore, who might eventually burn away enough of his audience through statements about Before Watchmen that this is true.

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

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