CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from July 21 to July 27, 2012:

1. Moroccan cartoonist Khalid Gueddar detained and questioned for republishing a 2011 that criticized an imam for soliciting a prostitute. Potential legal complications include a hefty fine and jail time.

2. Alternative Comics returns under the leadership of longtime, small-press publisher and distributor Marc Arsenault.

3. RJ Matson was among recent layoffs at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Winner Of The Week
Nicholas Garland. That's one sweet gig.

Losers Of The Week
The syndicate employees that saw this installment of Russell Myers' Broom Hilda and ended up not red-flagging it after the shootings in Colorado; they should have caught this.

Quote Of The Week
"Guess what? You don't get to call yourself underground if you're on Kickstarter. Guess what else? You don't get to call yourself a publisher either; you're just someone who pays a printing bill. Take pre-orders on your site. Sell your boots. Do what you have to do. But don't go begging for money so that you can then give five percent of it to Amazon.com, which is actively trying to put you (!), and the stores you hope to shove this shit into, out of business. I'm all for raising money for art, but it would be nice if there was some sense of proportion. No one needs this anthology but it might do fine 'in the market.' I'm so sick of seeing perfectly viable (viable, but not smart or interesting; viable) comic book projects on there. People can do what they want, but when you're out there hustling dough for your movie-ready zombie-baseball graphic novel, or fucking Cyberforce, or your poorly thought through Garo book, you just look like a schmuck." -- Dan Nadel

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today's cover is from the small-press and independent comics scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s

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