CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from April 9 to April 15, 2011:

1. Tokyopop announces it will close its North American publishing operations at the end of May, bringing to a close the 14-year publishing life of a company credited with kick-starting the translated manga boom.

2. French-language, alt-comics company in crisis L'Association holds an assembly on the company's future with more drama than 7.5 years of your average just-canceled TV soap opera. No one really knows what happens next.

3. Tahawwur Rana, said at one point to be the unwilling partner of the more aggressive David Coleman Headly in such nefarious activities as planning an attack on the Jylland-Posten paper that published the Danish cartoons, may be willing to indict Pakistani officials in the 26/11 Mumbai massacre as part of his legal wranglings. How much he actually knows is left to the imagination for now.

Winner Of The Week
Fumetto. No comics convention has been more flattered by the proliferation of video coverage.

Loser Of The Week
Diamond, having signed a big distribution deal with Tokyopop that now will never happen. (Thx, Tommy Raiko)

Quote Of The Week
"It wasn't simply a sales decision; though not very profitable, MOME held its own, if modestly. But for a company with finite resources, four volumes a year of a mostly full-color book ultimately means that there are around four other books that aren't being published in a given year. And as my editorial and publishing duties have broadened, not to mention fathering a child since MOME was born, I'm ready for a change and don't want MOME to calcify into something that I'm not actively passionate about or putting together by rote." -- Eric Reynolds, on deciding to end the alt-anthology MOME.

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today's cover is from the great comic book series Four-Color

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