CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from April 16 to April 22, 2011:

1. Mike Keefe of the Denver Post wins the Pulitzer, a couple of angles being that the veteran cartoonist was surprised by the win and thought that his chance at winning one had passed and/or that the Post deserves credit for keeping a staff cartoonist like Keefe.

2. Industry sources, commentators and fans grapple with word from late last week that Tokyopop was closing its North American publishing arm, with narratives about what Tokyopop was and what it did and why emerging in several different places.

3. One of the manga-related tourism hubs in Japan damaged by last month's earthquake/tsunami, the town of Ishinomaki's orientation of a museum and street around hometown boy made good Shotaro Ishinomari, begins to recover.

Winner Of The Week
Team Cul-De-Sac, for securing a painting by Bill Watterson of Richard Thompson's fantastic character Petey Otterloop for their forthcoming MS-related charity book that features other cartoonists working with Thompson's characters.

Losers Of The Week
Politicians that presume cartoonists are there to get on board with their various programs, by never making a crude joke about them or by supplying them with their work on request.

Quote Of The Week
"I've got to say, there's still nothing quite like journalist and critic Gary Groth picking up his hammer and his plank of wood with the nail sticking out of it again and just beating the shit out of someone." -- Warren Elllis

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

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