CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from April 23 to April 29, 2011:

1. The wider comics community learns that Bill Blackbeard -- a writer about comics, a longtime strips collection editor and the most important archivist of published comic strips and related material -- died last month at the age of 84.

2. Gary Varvel wins the Robert F. Kennedy award given to cartoonists.

3. Hobby Star sues the UFC and their convention partner Reed over use of the term "Fan Expo" to describe such a show in Canada. There was a greater reaction in terms of the novelty of someone actually pressing such rights than the idea that someone could be sued, which I think was long recognized in an intellectual sense as a possibility.

Winner Of The Week
Adam Hines

Loser Of The Week
Not his fault, but Shannon Wheeler.

Quote Of The Week
"In our culture, we're always having this discussion about what romantic love is. So I guess I leave it open for that reason. I don't think anyone's really sure what we mean by romantic love or love in general. We know it when we feel it." -- Chester Brown

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

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