CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from October 18 to October 24, 2014:

1. Musa Kart acquitted in Turkey of slander and criticism of the then prime minister and now president of Turkey, Recep Erdoğan.

2. There was a comics show in the West Bank last weekend.

3. Gary Groth receives the "Genius In Literature" award from The Stranger, a local honor for a man and a company not always recognized as a regional treasure.

Winner Of The Week
I'll go with Gary Groth here instead of Musa Kart, even though Kart was facing nine years in jail and Gary probably had much the same week he would have had he not won. Still, I like that Groth got his first of what I hope are many lifetime awards as he moves into his sixties (and several decades past his sixties), and I'm particularly glad to see him recognized within Seattle arts culture.

Losers Of The Week
I'd like to go with the gaming gators instead of Recep Erdoğan, but seriously, what kind of chowderhead running a country aims that country's legal system against someone who creates art critical of their actions? That's just not of this century.

Quote Of The Week
"What's the world coming to, when you're tacitly encouraged not to simply stomp about wherever you like, heedless of the humanity of others? What kind of world are we creating?" -- a David Malki character in a very funny Wondermark
 
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