CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from May 2 to May 8, 2015:

1. Chris Oliveros steps down as publisher at Drawn And Quarterly after 25 years. Peggy Burns will become publisher. Tom Devlin will become executive editor. The news was announced as part of the media coverage of the company's big weekend debuting its celebratory anthology volume at TCAF.

2. PEN honors Charlie Hebdo. Art Spiegelman gets Neil Gaiman and Alison Bechdel to join him as replacement table hosts in a political charged evening.

3. Free Comic Book Day 2015 has come and gone, an always-reliable spotlight into the world of brick and mortar, direct market retail. It seems to have become reliably successful for participating stores.

Winner Of The Week
Chris Oliveros.

Losers Of The Week
Stores that don't participate in FCBD. I don't mean that they're losers like they're second-rate people, but so many stores have made this work that to not have made this work puts you on the other side of something.

Quote Of The Week
"Chris Oliveros has been the best publisher, friend and shepherd that an artist could ever want. I have been proud to be associated with him all these years. He gave me the tools and the opportunity to become the cartoonist I am today. I am happy to see him resume his career as a cartoonist himself -- since he is one of the very best." -- Seth

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the comic image selected is from the brief but notable 1970s run of Seaboard/Atlas

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