CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from November 28 to December 4, 2015:

1. Publishers, cartoonists, shops and services take advantage of designated small-business and on-line business shopping days to positive effect, bringing comics more into the general commercial cycle than one might have thought possible a generation ago.

2. Fines and a jail term for cartoonist Tahar Djehiche in Algeria -- a case previously tried.

3. Iron Circus Comics will take over some administrative tasks facing Dean Trippe's Something Terrible.

Winner Of The Week
Patient Greg Cook fans.

Losers Of The Week
Fans of The Dinette Set, ending a 18-year run.

Quote Of The Week
"In the manga sales ranking, Eiichiro Oda's One Piece sill keeps its crown for seven years in a row since 2009." -- a report at Crunchyroll on the Japanese book/music market.

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the comic image selected is from the brief but notable 1970s run of Seaboard/Atlas

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