CR Week In Review



The top comics-related news stories from August 30 to September 3, 2008:

1. New calls to boycott Danish food products based on offenses relating to the Muhammed caricatures published in 2005 and republished since.

2. Lynn Johnston moves into the "new-run" phase of her For Better or For Worse, basically doing new material from old storylines featuring the Patterson family.

3. Mark Siegel casually drops mention of rough First Second sales figures for recent books, bucking an industry-wide trend going back to Moses and his Canaan Comics line.

Winner Of The Week
Scott McCloud

Losers Of The Week
Anthony Haters

Quote Of The Week
"Mandarake's shares soared by 17 percent at one stage, prompting one Nomura analyst to declare the stock 'an obvious short for when the market starts thinking rationally again.'" -- Leo Lewis

this week's imagery comes from pioneering comic book house Quality
 
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