CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from April 28 to May 4, 2012:

1. A strangely active week for the Danish Muhammed cartoons, years and years after the fact. New arrests, continuing trial, political jack-hammering.

2. Vauro Senesim was the beneficiary of a judge's decision this week that declared, and I feel oddly, that Senesim couldn't be an anti-Semite or display an act of anti-Semitism because he gives to charity. On the other hand, I don't think this should be a crucial item of focus for the legal system outside of the Court Of I Don't Like You.

3. MoCCA and Stumptown last weekend; TCAF this weekend: the arrival of the major small-press and artist-focused festivals put us all the way into the convention year.

Winner Of The Week
Comics' active charities (hopefully).

Losers Of The Week
Creators right advocates. The campaign to use the spotlight on the Avengers movie to make a point about the horrible practices of entertainment companies that use comics properties in terms of seeing that some of this late-in-life-of-property windfall makes it to creators failed to make a dent; it may be charitable to call it a campaign. This site is included in the loser pile, maybe right up top.

Quote Of The Week
"Childhood rickets left Mauldin undersized, jug-eared, baby-faced, physically inept. He smoked at three and drank whiskey at ten. He started countless fights, losing, he recalled, them all." -- Bob Levin

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today's cover is from the small-press and independent comics scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s

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