CR Week In Review



The top comics-related news stories from July 19 to July 25, 2008:

1. Al-Qaeda commander confirms in an interview that group's responsibility for bombing of Danish embassy in Pakistan on June 2 and that the reason for the bombing was related to the Danish Cartoons.

2. The legal issues regarding the February 12 arrest of three suspects accused of plotting the murder of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and his wife for Westergaard's role in the Danish Cartoons controversy proceed at a glacial pace.

3. Comic-Con International gets underway in San Diego, bringing with it the usual questions about the state of the show and the state of the industry.

Winner Of The Week
Robert Kirkman

Loser Of The Week
Staffed Editorial Cartooning Positions

Quote Of The Week
"Perfect for zombiephiles, video game addicts, grindhouse nostalgists and horror movie fanatics, Zombie Haiku is the touching story of a zombie's gradual decay told through the intimate poetry of haiku." -- press release on top of my mail stack.

this week's imagery comes from pioneering comic book house Hillman Publications
 
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