CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from April 30 to May 6, 2016:

1. Atena Farghadani released from Evin Prison.

2. Zunar wins a cartooning for peace prize, physically given to the heroically persistent cartoonist by Kofi Annan. Gauntlet thrown, Ignatzes.

3. Rick Friday's firing last week from Farm News because of a cartoon that criticized Big Corporate Farming became a fairly big "this is what media is going to become" story. No "if" on the end of that, by the way.

Winner Of The Week
Farghadani, reunited with her family.

Loser Of The Week
Farm News. Not only was this a terrible thing to do, to fire someone in an opinion-offering role at your publication for doing their job, but the cartoon was widely disseminated through all of the news reports.

Quote Of The Week
"At what point do comic book stores become independently operated gift shops for movie theaters?" -- Bill Kartalopoulos

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this year's comics images are from Fawcett

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