CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from October 29 to November 4, 2011:

1. The Paris-based offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were bombed on the morning of the release of its special "Sharia Hebdo" issue, complete with press release proclaiming that the Prophet Muhammed was the issue's special editor-in-chief. No one was hurt. The publication decamped to the offices of Liberation, while reaction split between support for the magazine's right to satire and criticism for needlessly instigating a violent incident.

2. David Simpson's contract with the Tulsa-area free weekly Urban Tulsa was severed after two consecutive instances of plagiarism of old Jeff MacNelly cartoons were discovered. Simpson claimed with the first one to be plagiarizing an old David Simpson cartoon, leaving up in the air how that cartoon turned out to be just like a MacNelly cartoon, or how so many were copies of various cartoons by other cartoonists. Several more instances of tracing were discovered.

3. Susie Cagle charged with misdemeanor after being picked up on an assembly charge at Occupy Oakland. Cagle was acting as a credentialed journalist at the event.

Winner Of The Week
Seth

Loser Of The Week
David Simpson

Quote Of The Week
"Nobody's a saint, you know -- when you do the kind of fringe stuff that I've done in my work, I'm not sure what the fuck I'm doing. That's why I said in that article, if I'm confronted by some angry child-abuse group I have no defense, I don't know what to say. I just throw up my hands and say, 'I dunno. Maybe I should be locked up, I have no idea.'" -- Robert Crumb

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

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