CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from August 15 to August 21, 2015:

1. Some incoming Duke students opt out of reading suggested book Fun Home, thinking the refusal to engage is a moral stand.

2. The LA Times responds at length to public accusations asserted in their direction by former Times freelancer Ted Rall.

3. MoCCA names its 2016 dates, sort of setting up the rest of the Spring con schedule to do so.

Winners Of The Week
MoCCA, able to find a new space in line with a choice they made last year that was immediately off the table because of living-space development.

Losers Of The Week
Fort Wayne comics fans.

Quote Of The Week
"Even though he had earned the devotion of groups as disparate as academics, disaffected youths, theologians, and middle-aged suburbanites, [Charles] Schulz shied away from lofty pronouncements about his work. He claimed not to know what was meant by 'existentialism' -- a term frequently affixed to Peanuts -- and he played down Lucy's psychiatric booth as a mere parody of a child's lemonade stand. His Midwestern sensibility carried with it an innate aversion to anything pretentious or elitist." -- Luke Epplin

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

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