CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from June 27 to July 3, 2015:

1. Leonard Starr passed away. One of the last great creators of lavishly illustrated soap opera comic strips, Starr had a long career in various worlds of cartooning, including working on a classic strip (Little Orphan Annie, which he did successfully from 1979 until 2000) and applying his massive skill-set to kids' animation.

2. The city of San Diego and Comic-Con International announce that their summer show will return to the city for two more years, through 2018. It wasn't unexpected, and the extra years should allow both entities to better gauge the progress San Diego will make over the next decade in expanding their convention space.

3. A conservative governor's joke about shooting a cartoonist -- made to the son of that cartoonist -- becomes part of a list of outsized behavior that may lead to that governor's impeachment.

Winners Of The Week
Thrillbent, picking up Strangers In Paradise. Lot of good weeks for a lot of people out there, actually.

Losers Of The Week
The entire comics community, for not better appreciating just how amazing the art form's regular output is right now. There may be just as many great comics as there were five to ten to twenty years ago, but there are far more high quality ones. I wonder sometimes if that gets lost in both the industry's adherence to a very specific kind of Internet discourse and the economic rewards system that still favors disposable higher-profit publications.

Quote Of The Week
"They all work for me." -- Chico Caruso

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

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