The week's most important comics-related news stories, May 20 to May 26, 2006.
1. Mana Neyestani and his editor arrested in Iran and their paper closed following riots ostensibly caused by Neyestani's cartoon about an Azeri-speaking roach.
2. Revered longtime comic strip editor and current Executive Vice President Lee Salem to assume the presidency of Universal Press Syndicate.
3. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund announces a corporate fund and initial members.
Losers of the Week
Cartoonists in Iran, where the political manipulation of expressive cartoons can lead to innocent death and imprisonment of the cartoonist.
Quote of the Week
"Nowadays, cartooning is a very dangerous profession in Iran, and probably cartoonists might be referred to as funny criminals." -- Nik Kowsar on the situation in Iran for his peers.
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