The top comics-related news stories from June 13 to June 19, 2009:
1. Unrest in Iran expressed through cartooning component: massive interest worldwide from cartoonists, special focus on Iranian cartoonists, street cartooning, Marjane Satrapi in Brussels.
2. Comic sales in the Direct Market for May 2009 suck a bone, particularly when compared to a relatively robust May 2008.
Quote Of The Week
"Now this is how you write a post-artcomix-festival thank-you letter: TCAF's Chris Butcher shows us how it's done." -- Sean T. Collins, referencing the warm moments and minor glitches letter in a way that hadn't occurred to me.
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today's cover is from one of the great publications of the underground comix era