November 15, 2014
CR Week In Review
The top comics-related news stories from November 8 to November 14, 2014:
1. Public support from a Malaysian Human Rights organization
falls to Zunar, once again under pressure from police authorities in his country for publishing work that by any rational world standard is pretty mild political commentary and no danger to anyone.
2. Charles Hatfield, Susan Kirtley and Nhora Serrano
were named interim officers of a new professional organization for comics scholars, The Comics Studies Society.
3. Comic Arts Brooklyn
ends its second year and first as a formal, two-day show.
Winner Of The Week
Roz Chast
Loser Of The Week
Anyone that uses altered or massively re-contextualized art over the objections of the art-maker to practice political advocacy.
Quote Of The Week
On the one hand: these characters aren't sacrosanct; they get changed and updated all the time. On the other hand: to turn Wonder Woman into the daughter of Zeus is to take a massively influential female hero and icon whose unique origins lie in the suffrage and birth control movements, and whose origin story is taken directly from Progressive era feminist utopian fiction, and turn her into a stock element in a Percy Jackson knockoff. You could take away Krypton from Superman, too, and decide, say, that Superman is the son of Odin, or that he's George Washington brought back from the dead, or that he has a sidekick named Watson, or two heads. But then, of course, he wouldn't be Superman." --
Jill Lepore, on recent changes to the Wonder Woman character.
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