CR Week In Review



The top comics-related news stories from April 4 to April 11, 2009:

1. Mainstream comics writer Len Wein and family survive house fire that guts their home and costs the life of a dear pet, underlining the relative fragility of existence for even successful comics industry freelancers and the irony of this happening a month before a $130 million dollar movie featuring Wein's co-creation opens to the public. Friends rally behind the said-to-be appropriately-insured creator and fans promise to help him restore a lost library of works.

2. Wizard Entertainment head honcho buys Big Apple Con, bringing him into direct competition with Reed Exhibitions and its New York Comic-Con and raising questions about why he bought it himself rather than through his company, which shed a couple more employees.

3. A woman was arrested for threatening cartoonist Eiichiro Oda. Unlike what you might guess if you were asked to fill in the blanks on such a story in 1993 or so, it was economic factors and not something in the cartoonist's work that was driving the threat-making.

Winners Of The Week
Major Eisner Award Nomination Boost-Receivers include Skim, Dark Horse and Thor.

Loser Of The Week
Michael George, the prominent retailer and convention organizer, whose retrial on murder charges was likely delayed, along with it the question as to whether he should receive bail while waiting for the process that is driving the delay.

Quote Of The Week
"While it is true that one of Turkey's objections to his candidacy was his handling of the cartoon crisis, another issue has been equally important: the fact that the Kurdish television station ROJ TV has been transmitting from Denmark for four years." -- Matthias Wivel

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