CR Week In Review



The top comics-related news stories from March 27 to April 2, 2010:

1. Dick Giordano, an important cover artist of the 1950s, a key editor of the 1960s and 1980s, and again a crucial artist of the 1970s, all in mainstream North American comics, dies at 77.

2. Tahawwur Hussain Rana maintains his not-guilty plea in charges related to his accused co-conspiratorial role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks and the Mickey Mouse plot.

3. Editorial cartoons enjoy a particularly coarse week (1, 2).

Winner Of The Week
Comic-Con. They want to sell out, right?

Losers Of The Week
Fans of the alternative publication editorial cartoon, whose world seems to be rapidly shrinking.

Quote Of The Week
"Comicpalooza was devoted to comics as entertainment. Virtually everything there was related to popular fannish genres and generally to the lowest common denominator examples of those genres. And that's OK." -- Robert Boyd

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today's cover is from the 1940s-1950s mainstream comics publisher Avon

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