CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from June 11 to June 17, 2011:

1. Zunar sues the Malaysian government, the Home Ministry and three police officials concerning a 2010 seizure and brief imprisonment due to the satirical nature of his then-latest book.

2. Zapiro has employed the rape metaphor again for an editorial cartoon about laws designed to curtail the freedom of the press, and not everyone in South Africa or the wider international community is enthusiastically on board.

3. A Denmark appeals court is seeking three additional years tacked onto the sentence of Mohammed Geele. Geele was the Somali man arrested, tried and convicted for crimes related to a axe-assisted break-in at Danish Muhammed cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's house that sent the septuagenarian into a panic room.

Winner Of The Week
Bob Haney & Del Connell (tie).

Losers Of The Week
Freelancers that were placing cartoon work at the New York Times, as they're seemingly going back to commissioning work directly.

Quote Of The Week
"Lee told me that when my cartoons first started running, one of the older cartoonists asked him if he owed my family money. And at my first New Yorker party, Charles Saxon came up to me and had things to say about my drawing style. He even asked me, 'Why do you draw the way you do?' And I said, 'Why do you draw the way you do?' Why do you talk the way you do? Why do you dress the way you do? Why is your handwriting the way it is? I don't know. I'm aware that a lot of people probably hate my stuff. But I hate a lot of people's work, too. Everybody has their taste." -- Roz Chast

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

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