CR Week in Review

Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, January 29 to February 4, 2005:

1. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund takes on the case of Gordon Lee, a retailer in Rome, Georgia accused of two crimes stemming from a mistake during a giveaway last Halloween.

2. Word leaks on major restructuring of DC Comics' sales and marketing departments.

3. Viz makes it official, announcing comics line-up for forthcoming anthology Shojo Beat.

Winners of the Week
Small-town North American comics fans who with Shojo Beat may see their local comics purchase options double.

Loser of the Week
DC Comics VP-Book Trade Sales Rich Johnson, who really hasn't been demoted, it just sort of seems that way.

Quote of the Week
"And Tokyopop isn't just selling Japanese books. They're doing well with licensed American product like Lizzy McGuire (sp). Y'know, licensing popular kid properties and exploiting them in comics, like American companies like DC and Dell used to do. Marvel and DC could and should have been making some of this manga money, after DHC's excursions, after Viz, while Sailor Moon was bubbling, while Pokemon and Digimon was overflowing and the name Miyazaki was becoming better known amongst fanboys, they've had years since the days of Eclipse and the first Akira translations to rethink and adapt and license and exploit. They didn't. And now everyone else is in the pool first." -- Evan Dorkin makes a really good point, in the comments portion of his web journal.
 
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