CR Week In Review



The top comics-related news stories from August 22 to August 28, 2009:

1. Political cartoon magazine raided in Maylaysia.

2. Yale University Press decision to not re-run Muhammad cartoons devolves into open accusations they're doing to suck up to Muslim world sources of endowment fundage, while it's also revealed the author basically approved of the decision.

3. Judge orders another round of mediation in Siegels vs. DC/TW.

Winner Of The Week
The late Senator Ted Kennedy, whose legacy was for the most part treated kindly by North American editorial cartoonists.

Losers Of The Week
Comics creators that don't immediately come with the hits in an increasingly competitive and unforgiving and numbers-driven comics market, perhaps?

Quote Of The Week
"One of the phenomena where I think we're in transition: comics were a very forgiving medium for its creators." -- Paul Levitz

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today's cover is from one of the great publications of the underground comix era

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