CR Week In Review



The top comics-related news stories from October 6 to October 13, 2006:

1. Danish Cartoons Controversy 2: videotape of kids at a political party's summer camp making Muhammed cartoons + the printing of a cartoon showing Muhammed as a pedophile that appears in a politcal party's magazine and web site = protests at the Danish embassies in Tehran and Jakarta, a lot of denouncing from Muslim and Danish authorities, and worries that this is another nail in the coffin that is the radicalization of mainstream Muslim opinion. (Latest update)

2. The library in Marshall, Missouri deals with a request to remove Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Craig Thompson's Blankets by, well, removing them -- but only until a policy is put into place to deal with what should be shelved and what shouldn't. Then they might be restored. Or not.

3. Gene Yang's American Born Chinese is nominated for a National Book Award, which some pundits claim is bigger than the Special Pulitzer awarded to Art Spiegelman's Maus. I think these people are insane.

Winner of the Week
Gene Yang

Losers of the Week
Two Danish young people in hiding because they made cartoons.

Quote Of The Week
"It's even got a fence around it!" -- creepy Anthony from For Better Or For Worse chooses a psychologically revealing best feature of his daughter's playpen dollhouse.

i would only build really weak robots, so if they pulled shit like this I could cuff them to the floor
 
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