CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from September 3 to September 9, 2016:

1. Veteran writer-about-comics Tim O'Shea enters hospice; he's been struggling with brain cancer for a while. For a chance to reach out, read here.

2. Valiant shut out of Harvey Awards after nominations rounds saw them snag about 50 or so nominations. Otherwise, a pretty typical night for that show, as I recall.

3. Tasteless Charlie Hebdo cartoon brings charges of tastelessness, with dollops of political narrative served up as side dishes.

Winner Of The Week
Tim O'Shea. Class guy, family man, has always been passionate in fair, proportional terms about comics.

Losers Of The Week
Valiant. Let's just say Valiant. They're a decent company, doing well, providing relatively high-paying work to a stratum of creator that might not get such gigs otherwise. They didn't need to go after nominations that way even though with the way the Harveys are constructed, nominations are just sitting there to be had.

Quote Of The Week
"With his long, graying hair and extravagant beard, [Alan] Moore resembles Blake's mythical creation Urizen, who, in 'The Ancient of Days,' crouches outside space-time to measure the universe with a pair of celestial compasses. I had first met him a few weeks earlier, at the Odditorium, and had remarked on his Dalmatian-print winkle-picker shoes. (Moore likes to dress up; on the occasion of Britain voting to leave the E.U., he performed a rap about demagoguery in a 'three-quarter-length white-satin frock coat,' with his face painted to resemble a mandrill, 'the best-looking creature in the world.') Today, apart from a knuckleful of sorcerer's rings and a walking stick made to resemble a snake god, on the handle, he looked relatively ordinary, as we made our way past W. H. Smith, the newsagent shop, down the street." -- Nat Segnit

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this year's comics images are from Fawcett

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