CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from October 25 to October 31, 2014:

1. Wallace Wood Properties LLC sues Tatjana Wood for return of Wally Wood art.

2. An ambitious crowd-funder for a suite of Osamu Tezuka-related works seems to stall in the early, momentum-building stages due in part to scrutiny from industry observers and interested fans, potentially marking a change in crowd-funding strategies and in the publishing fate for English language Tezuka efforts.

3. PW launches this year's orgy of Best-Of lists.

Winners Of The Week
The Swann Foundation winners. Getting the ability to travel and study for your dissertation or your first important post-doctoral work has a chance to be life-changing.

Losers Of The Week
Still the Gamers, although the potential irony in some people flipping out at a line in the linked-to NYT piece as if it were a personal assault was noted.

Quote Of The Week
"It's not sitting down at a keyboard and writing a script and thinking, oh shit, what's the next line? I sit with cheap notebooks or cheap sketchbooks and just fill them up with ideas and maybe pieces of dialogue and bits and pieces. I keep circulating through all those notes. Go back to those notes. So nothing feels cut in stone or permanent. It all feels like it's open and I can move in any direction that I want.

"It's starting with a lot of information and slowly, slowly distilling it down to something that's concrete. So maybe that says something about my personality that I'm very cautious and very careful about all that stuff, but I don't have the kind of brain that can sit down and write beautiful dialogue and a beautiful story. There's people who certainly can do that work really quickly and just do amazing work, but I don't have that facility unfortunately. I wish I did, but I don't." -- Charles Burns
 
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