CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from September 13 to September 19, 2014:

1. Alison Bechdel wins a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation.

2. SPX, come and gone.

3. Four comics-makers and one sometimes comics publishing house support an open letter to the Brooklyn Book Festival criticizing their decision to take Israeli state money targeted towards arts promotion for one of the festival's panels.

Winner Of The Week
Bechdel.

Losers Of The Week
Longtime users of Brian Bendis' messageboard.

Quote Of The Week
"The Gibson Girls are stationary; they sit on the beach in their cute, ancient swim costumes, smiling like Mona Lisa, and the men just all flock around them. Nell Brinkley's women are extremely active. They surf, sled, and ski, with hair flying in the wind. A favorite subject for Gibson was showing these beautiful society girls being married off to ugly, old counts and dukes. Brinkley's women never let people marry them off to nobility. They fell in love. It was a whole new generation. She didn't create the New Woman, but she mirrored her." -- Trina Robbins
 
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