CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from October 8 to October 14, 2011:

1. A jury found former prominent Pennsylvania comics retailer and convention organizer Michael George guilty of 1st Degree Murder in the 1990 slaying of his then-wife Barbara in their Michigan comics store. This was the second conviction for George -- a 2008 judgment was set aside by that trial's presiding judge when he saw what he consider malfeasance from the prosecutor's office in withholding information about other possible suspects. The jury took parts of two days and an entire third to come to their decision. George's alibi that he had been sleeping on his mother's couch at the time was countered by a witness and some earlier testimony by George's mother. George is 51 years old.

2. Sparkplug Comic Books will continue for the time being -- at least in terms of selling already published books -- with Emily Nilsson, Tom Neely and Virginia Paine running the company. The publisher lost its founder and driving force Dylan Williams to cancer in September.

3. Books-A-Million, currently the second biggest physical bookstore chain and a partner with Barnes & Noble on their digital reading program, joins B&N in pulling DC Comics efforts from its shelves that DC made available exclusively to the new Amazon.com kindle device for at least the holiday season. I think this is more sound & fury, allowing these companies to send a message to other publishers that might consider an exclusive on a more crucial sales item that would need their bookshelves more than DC does with those older books right now.

Winners Of The Week
Chan Lowe and the late Doug Marlette. I'm a sucker for Halls of Fame, and I love the fact that Oklahoma has its own.

Loser Of The Week
Whatever person at the Obama campaign came up with the idea of having a contest that is making people work for free at the onset of a presidential campaign that's going to be primarily focused on job creation.

Quote Of The Week
"It's not a growing field. If I pay attention to it too closely, I get depressed." -- Richard Thompson, on the newspaper strip business.

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today's cover is from the great comic book series Four-Color

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