CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from August 27 to September 2, 2016:
1. Image Comics makes official their intention to move to Portland, which now becomes along with the Los Angeles area and New York City an official major metropolis of the North American comics industry.

2. Iranian-born political refugee Eaten Fish wins the CRNI Courage In Editorial Cartooning Award.

3. The 99th anniversary of Jack Kirby's birthday passed, with the hint of some trenchant discussion of how we should celebrate the King. As a creator in his own right? As a creator of intellectual property into which other people might plug? As a paragon of creativity itself? And now that the lawsuits are over, how do we process the years where Marvel and the Kirby Family were adversaries?

Winner Of The Week
Eaten Fish. That's an extraordinarily difficult circumstance under which to create compelling, necessary art.

Losers Of The Week
The comics industry, specifically in our ability to talk to one another. We can do smart commentary, but once we get into rejoinders and replies things get so ugly and as a result quickly grind to a halt. I get wanting to win arguments. Jordan Raphael and I co-created the TCJ Messageboard, which was a place where dozens of comics people tried to do just that at the cost of many things -- including sanity -- for more than a decade. We should be past the bulk of that kind of bad-faith rhetoric now if only for the multiple examples of its futility. People's language is so aggressive and so unrelenting in giving up any sort of territory whatsoever. It keeps the interactions we have on-line from being a place of change.

Quote Of The Week
"Godspeed, Richard Thompson. Peace be with you. You did all that you could do. Your family who were like friends and friends who were like family, your colleagues and many supporters did all that they could do. Thank you for all you did for all of us. We will miss you but we will celebrate your life for the gift it was in ours." -- Dr. Anita Auerbach

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this year's comics images are from Fawcett

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