CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from April 30 to May 5, 2011. (Any events from Friday, May 6, will be included in next weekend's CRWIR.)

1. At least one creator and one comics shop in the storm-ravaged southern U.S. rally: the creator could use a hand, the store is ready for your patronage, and is able to give back to the community through a canned-food drive tied into Free Comic Book Day.

2. Last one out the door at Wizard, please turn off the lantern: the former dominant print publication about comics, now an on-line offering and not really dominant in any way, loses the person that is perhaps its most prominent employee of the last dozen years.

3. The Kenyan cartoonist GADO receives $100,000 from the Ford Foundation, a signal of the cartoonist's growing influence on Eastern African media. GADO, real name Godfrey Mwampembwa, is both widely syndicated and followed in print and has a Spitting Image-style satirical puppet television show.

Winner Of The Week
Mike Peters, taking home the Thomas Nast award, which he can slip next to his National Headliners honor from about a month ago.

Loser Of The Week
Fans of either comics-related mainstream newspaper column that came to an end recently.

Quote Of The Week
"Let;s raid the compound of incompetence and fire bullets of sarcasm through the trite tropes of terrorists as they dive for their human shields of forced analogies, bloggily burying them at sea to dampen their foul smell." -- Matt Bors, looking around at some of the cartoons featuring the death of Osama Bin Laden he thought were turds.

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

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