CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from October 15 to October 21, 2011:

1. The layoffs of 11 Marvel employees shines a troubling spotlight on Marvel's practice of tightening their belt even when the only benefit is to match some sort of profits goal placed on the business by its bosses.

2. NYCC sets an attendance record for its brief history at just over 105,000 (although I'm not exactly sure how this was counted). For mainstream comic books at the very least, the event seems firmly ensconced as North America's #2 most sizable and important funnybook show. There was a lot of publishing news.

3. Amazon.com announces its intention to enter prose publishing in a big way in Fall 2012. I'm imagining one of those scenes in a movie where hit men descend on Las Vegas, only it's veteran comics people lurking about Seattle, all looking to pitch Amazon on a comics line.

Winner Of The Week
Jaime Hernandez

Loser Of The Week
The American Cancer Society

Quote Of The Week
"The problem with 'comics' is that they're not all funny. The problem with 'cartoons' is that they're not all sequential. It's a very wide and varied field of work that can't be easily subsumed under one title. Picture stories are an antique medium. Every country has its own name for them. In France it's a strip drawing. In America many call it comics, because they associate the medium with humour. All these names show the limitations of language in describing something complex." -- Ben Katchor

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

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