December 16, 2006
CR Week In Review
The top comics-related news stories from December 9 to December 15, 2006:
1. Major Danish Cartoons Controvery fall-out continues 14 months after pubilcation of cartoons: a fatwa
reissued, more Yemeni journalists
sentenced, and Denmark's best-known business
gets some of its business back.
2. The Angouleme festival
overhauls its well-known awards.
3. Comics loses two of its most colorful characters: the kindly and solicitous Golden Age artist
Martin Nodell; the maverick logger/cartoonist and unlkely modern graphic novel pioneer
Bus Griffiths.
Winner Of The Week
Diesel Sweeties: the strip syndication version of the popular on-line webcomic
launches with a small suite of big papers and several open or brand-new slots in play.
Loser Of The Week
Me, for
not reading a story right the first time and then not changing the URL name after I change and post my updated story.
Quote Of The Week
"If someone chops your head off and your skin rots you look like this." --
Hayley Campbell, age 7.
I thought my friend Gil might get a kick out of this one
posted 12:05 am PST |
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