CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from July 18 to July 24, 2015:

1. Recent money tussles at Charlie Hebdo develop into a potential compromise point: the company won't be restructured to employee-owned, but by-laws will drive profits back into the company rather than immediately being processed by the shareholders.

2. Comic-Con provides a bigger industry-attention hangover than it has the last few years, with potential stories from the show perhaps still on the to-track-down lists of some of the industry's attentive writers. This site didn't publish its own bullet-point report until last Monday.

3. SPACE, one of the veteran shows out there (like SPX it developed out of a stop on the 1990s Spirits Of Independence tour), pulls off a very challenging 2015 show. This includes an original host hotel that closed after the convention had been booked there.

Winner Of The Week
Organizer Bob Corby, of SPACE.

Losers Of The Week
Those of us that loved the absurdity of Stan Sakai being played across the Eisners stage to the tune of "Sexual Healing." It's apparently not true, and structurally not possible given the song choices.

Quote Of The Week
"It's true that in France sales are kind of plateauing, and the number of releases also. It's a stable situation, but as a businessman you're always looking for extra sales, extra profit. So that may have played a part. The main thing is that I've been trying to supply an international dimension to my company for years. Again, print is very difficult for that. It's too risky, too complicated. Digital may open a big door for us. I wanted to be the first to open that door." -- Guy Delcourt

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

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