CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from September 6 to September 12, 2014:

1. Fantagraphics launches a micro-publishing imprint, Fantagraphics Underground (FU).

2. The comics convention in Salt Lake City reports impressive number marking the continued growth of conventions and festivals as an element of comics and pop culture.

3. Harvey Award winners honored in Baltimore.

Winner Of The Week
Conventions in general. It's not all super-strong news across the board with every convention or every type of convention, but the continued strength of shows like the ones in Baltimore and Salt Lake City show there's room from more convention-going.

Losers Of The Week
Everyone in the world not sitting where I was as I typed this, watching the world of North American small press comics wander by.

Quote Of The Week
"Reassuring and educating those adults... they are often unsure -- even in this day and age -- that comics are okay for kids. They're afraid that kids will read comics instead of reading real books. They see kids' eagerness for comics. We want to show them how rich the book is. How all of the visual parts... so many readers, critics and reviewers don't realize how much information there is visually in a comic. This was one way to make this manifest so that everyone would realize that this is a book... it's something that happens with comics that you read them more than once. And reading, making the story happen in your imagination, that happens on a lot of different levels. That's not something always acknowledged in a textbook because it's less common that after you read a prose book you immediately start reading it again -- or that you read the same text book five times. It happens, but it's not common. With comics that almost always happens, especially with a comic that you like." -- Francoise Mouly

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I forgot to load from my folder of 1964 Marvel covers before I left town, so here's an issue of Critters instead

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