CR Week In Review



The top comics-related news stories from December 13 to December 20, 2008:

1. The conviction of Dwight Whorley was upheld by a circuit court of appeals. Whorley was convicted of having child pornography in part due to owning cartoon imagery of children in sexual situations.

2. Word seeps out that in addition to dropping its posters/prints category, Diamond will also not list as many O/A entries up front in the catalog with the new stuff, a possible big blow to publishers large and small who depend on such listings.

3. Two more North American cartoonists lose their full-time positions.

Winners Of The Week
Fans of Hans Rickheit

Loser Of The Week
Zapiro

Quote Of The Week
"I had voluntarily left the employment of Fantagraphics Books in late September 1985 to work for Dominos Pizza. I left for financial reasons." -- Dave Olbrich. This is the first time I've ever had multiple e-mails from people demanding something be the quote of the week. It is funny, although in defense of comics generally and my former employers specifically it was a whole different comics world 25 years ago.

this week's imagery comes from pioneering comic book house Hillman Publications
 
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