CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from August 11 to August 17, 2012:

1. The comic book illustrator and educator Joe Kubert passes away on Sunday in New Jersey. In addition to the range and scope and achievement represented by his career, Kubert was one of the last remaining major ties to the early days of the North American comic book industry. He was buried on Tuesday.

2. Rumors are confirmed that The Dandy will be canceled in December after a 75-year run.

3. The cartoonist Richard Thompson announces that he'll be ending his Cul De Sac newspaper strip on September 23 to better focus energy on treatment for his Parkinson's. The award-winning, much-loved strip will have run just short of five years, garnering for Thompson the Reuben awarded in May 2011.

Winner Of The Week
Richard Thompson, for announcing his strip's end with the maximum amount of class and humor.

Losers Of The Week
Everyone in comics that will miss Joe Kubert, a titanic figure in the lives of many creators.

Quote Of The Week
"We all had big egos in comics. We got into a lot of fights, one of the reasons we broke up. We'd work for two or three days straight, almost around the clock, always late trying to meet a deadline. About nine or ten at night we'd have to take a few bennies to stay awake. We did this about once a week, and would get pretty tired. Wally would fall asleep at the drawing board, pencil poised over a panel, then wake up a few minutes later and start drawing where held left off. Sometimes we'd get so tired and behind schedule weld just ink in whole panels from scratch, not even using a pencil. I knew very few guys who worked together more than a couple of years. There was always some friction going on." -- the late comics illustrator turned science fiction author Harry Harrison, in a 1970s interview, about his partnership with Wally Wood.

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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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