CR Week In Review



The week's most important comics-related news stories, March 25 to March 31, 2006.

1. A major deal and a sort-of major deal. Tokyopop secures a co-publishing and distribution alliance with HarperCollins. Marvel and Panini re-up and expand their European and South American representation deal.

2. More than 2/3 of newspapers carrying Boondocks decide not to carry a re-run package during the strip's six-month hiatus. Some papers even take this opportunity to drop the strip outright and re-do their comics pages.

3. Ralph Steadman to receive the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at this year Ruebens dinner. Competition for the cartoonist of the year honor wide open. No comic book division nominees this year.

Winner of the Week
Mike Luckovich, a rare editorial cartoonist nominee in the Cartoonist of the Year category at the Reubens.

Losers of the Week
Old-fashioned comics fans dismayed that Milo Manara doing the art for an X-Men book will lead young, impressionable X-Men readers to the depravities of Manara's back-catalog.

Quote of the Week
"Life is always better with a happy writer. I don't think unhappy writers are ever good for you." -- DC President and Publisher Paul Levitz

Art from Ralph Steadman
 
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