CR Week In Review

Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, October 30 to November 5, 2004:

1. Bush Re-Election and General Conservative Lean to National Elections Has CBLDF Worried About Future
2. Marvel Aggressively Expands Book Format Offerings for First Third of '05
3. Warren Ellis Signing Throws Spotlight on Comic Relief's Eviction

Winners of the Week
The latest round of Xeric Award recipients, creators who have received grant money to facilitate the publishing of a comics project.

Loser of the Week
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), a free-speech advocacy and publishing rights group that may well face the daunting possibility a more hostile legal landscape for its work in the near-future and a politically touchy constituency when it comes to formulating strategy.

Quote of the Week
"No matter what happens, the one thing I'm confident saying is that protecting Free Speech isn't going to get any easier in the foreseeable future." -- CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein's measured take on Tuesday's election results in the article cited above.

Sample art from Xeric winners Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunalvey
 
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