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August 1, 2015


CR Week In Review

imageThe top comics-related news stories from July 25 to July 31, 2015:

1. Ted Rall blasts the LA Times for how they severed their relationship with him as a freelancer.

2. An anonymous Cerebus fan pledges $500,000 to the Cerebus Trust by making it the primary beneficiary of his estate.

3. Another major alt-show announced, this time for Denver.

Winner Of The Week
The Cerebus Trust

Losers Of The Week
General media coverers of comics, like this site, that don't do the job of covering manga that they should.

Quote Of The Week
"One of the emotional controls a writer requires is to be able to write something, spends days or even weeks on it and then to review it and say, 'This isn't good enough' and toss it out and immediately start on a rewrite or something else." -- Mark Evanier

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

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