CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from August 6 to August 12, 2011:

1. A pair of British comics shops are damaged in that country's spate of riots, but only superficially and reports were that all stores in the region opened for New Comics Day.

2. Renton police suspend investigation of a local cartoonist that had been posting YouTube video playing up the department's foibles, certainly one of the more distressing assaults on free speech in recent memory even for as far as it got.

3. Philadelphia newspapers cut approximately ten strips combined, including two by prominent area cartoonists. Philadelphia is a major market and used to have the reputation as an early achievable one for a young cartoonist with a strip on the rise.

Winner Of The Week
Newly-announced retiree Ralph Macchio.

Loser Of The Week
Renton's police department and whatever goofball signed off on the original investigation.

Quote Of The Week
"Frankly, there's no amount of awareness that can pay the artist to be an artist. Asking female creators to donate their time and efforts for non-paying projects is, at best, ineffectual to the cause. There is no pedestal flattering enough, no validation tangible enough, to outvalue a month's worth of rent. And that's what we want -- for underrepresented artists to pay their rent, so we can see more incredible art from them." -- Meredith Gran

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today's cover is from the great comic book series Four-Color

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