CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from April 19 to April 25, 2014:

1. Mohammad Hassan Khalid faces five years and likely deportation following his trial about his involvement with a group that among other things plotted to kill Lars Vilks for cartoon-like drawings he made.

2. Prize season: Jim Woodring's Fran wins the Lynd Ward; Kevin "Kal" Kallaugher wins the Thomas Nast.

3. Mark Waid's Thrillbent effort relaunches with more elements of a subscription model present than in the all-free model it had initially assumed.

Winner Of The Week
This kid.

Loser Of The Week
Khalid.

Quote Of The Week
"As I said many years ago, Stan (or Stan through Sol Brodsky) did from time to time ask me to provide original artwork from the warehouse to give to business contacts. These did not amount to many pages, but the inference was that this was something Stan did now and then to promote business with Marvel. I also found a record of a limited number of pages that had been lent to a comic art show before I got to Marvel in 1974, and there may have been a few other such instances. But I believe most if not all of those lent pages had been returned. I never heard of any non-pro being given Marvel artwork, nor do I recall any rumors of such when I was a fan, or recall seeing any such pages back in the 1960s when we fans would share our collections of comics and related items." -- Irene Vartanoff

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image from a Marvel comic book, 1964

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