CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from September 15 to September 21, 2012:

1. The magazine Charlie Hebdo publishes cartoons related to Muhammed during an increasingly tense, rolling, international situation concerning violent reprisals due to offense taken by provocative art focused on the Prophet.

2. The Small Press Expo in the greater DC area (I honestly don't know whether to call it Bethesda, North Bethesda or Rockville) concludes on Sunday with the most successful edition of the show yet, ending the extended summer convention season with a bang and answering about 14 months of distressing personal news in the independent/alt community with a wave of good feeling.

3. Dave Sim negotiates a contract. With Fantagraphics. In public.

Winner Of The Week
Karissa Sakumoto (Los Bros should win those, and all comics, awards)

Loser Of The Week
Mitt Romney, who suffered a perceived setback not on policy but on the perceived effectiveness of his presidential campaign, maybe the one topic on which an editorial cartoonist can pounce without political blowback.

Quote Of The Week
"Given what happened last week, and the fact that people are being killed, Charlie Hebdo is doubly irresponsible to publish these cartoons." -- Navi Pillay

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today's cover is from the small-press and independent comics scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s

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