CR Week In Review



The top comics-related news stories from September 9 to September 15, 2006:

1. Art Spiegelman withdraws his work from the half of the Masters of American Comics exhibit showing at the Jewish Museum.

2. Mana Neyestani: fined and freed? Conflicting reports from Iran's war against its own press continue.

3. Tokyopop announces intention to offer pre-order window to Direct Market retailers.

Winners of the Week
The 2006 Ignatz Jury: an impressive slate of nominees goes a long way in making people like an awards program.

Losers of the Week
Any of the publishing houses that showed up for the Baltimore Comic-Con and then failed to have their attending nominees or some decently big-named company representatives on hand for the Harvey Awards. Look, shit happens. Not everyone can make every award show, but every company in the top 15 can have a prominent, name representative on hand if not the nominees themselves. There are like maybe three or four awards with the traction to have earned this slight nod of respect. It's not a significant burden. First step -- don't schedule against it without freeing up a contingent for the show.

Quote of the Week
"We were so in love with the idea of a cartoon museum in the Empire State Building. We just didn't even think beyond that." -- Brian Walker on the National Cartoon Museum losing yet another home -- this time before they occupied it.

you ever wake up and feel nostalgic about a publisher?
 
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