CR Week In Review

Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, December 25 to December 31, 2004:

1. Marvel makes official Mark Paniccia's move into a Senior Editorship position. Press coverage reveals potential plans for a new original graphic novel effort and another formal stab at new talent development; Paniccia's past puts an American manga effort on the table as well.

2. CBLDF releases year-end report: victories in Michigan, Arkansas, fund-raising; wait-and-see in South Carolina and with various amicus briefs.


3. Steve Roper and Mike Nomad ends kabillion year run in newspapers, an indication of real market struggle for some long-running strips after a creator or a popular custodial caretaker artist passes on.

Winner of the Week
Dark Horse Comics, whose manga and movie tie-in books have sparked a resurgence that so impressed a local business reporter the company was also given credit for publishing Ghost World and Road to Perdition. Seriously, though, the article revealed that DHC's projected 2005 efforts (more manga, Star Wars, Sin City) seem right in line to build on previous efforts, which should afford the company the benefits of strong continuity.

Losers of the Week
Anyone exposed to a higher than usual number of widely-disseminated and potentially misleading or occasionally outright erroneous articles on the medium, a sign that while comics have reached the mainstream of media coverage, a good deal of this coverage is going to come from fans with a skewed perspetive or half-informed outsiders.

Quote of the Week
"John Balzar of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the job of editorial cartoonist is one of the tiniest occupational categories in the U.S., with about 100 workers. He claims that the number of blacksmiths in the American Farriers Association is 30 times larger than cartoonist memberships in the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. 'And, it can be noted, the demand for blacksmiths has been increasing.'" -- From a year-end review of the weird in arts and culture appearing in The Georgia Straight.
 
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