CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from April 9 to April 15, 2016:

1. The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum acquires the Jay Lynch collection, as major an acquisition as there has been in quite some time.

2. Emerald City and SPACE drive a weekend of comics shows that announce, once and for all, that we're well into the 2016 season.

3. Carol Tyler wins the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, one of the latest prizes to announce and one of the few to recognize Tyler's monster book Soldier's Heart. The prolific, prodigious Boulet won the on-line iteration. Both receive cash prizes.

Winner Of The Week
A tie between Tyler and the cartooning prize program smart enough to recognize her.

Loser Of The Week
The idea that a movie rating is worth a press release and the resulting series of yes-sir articles. Either these characters are legitimate vehicles for different approaches or they're not. The weird thing is I remember The Killing Joke being a problematic work but not a particularly profane or dirty one.

Quote Of The Week
"The winner of the Best Print Comic prize is Carol Tyler for her momentous Soldier's Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father (Fantagraphics), a collection of Tyler's three mournful, angry, beautiful memoirs about her dad, Chuck Tyler, his experiences on the European front in World War 2, and the PTSD -- or 'soldier's heart' -- that affected not just the rest of his life but his daughter Carol's as well." -- Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize press release.

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this year's comics images are from Fawcett

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