February 17, 2006
CR Week In Review
The week's most important comics-related news stories, February 11 to February 17, 2006.
1. More deaths, protests, boycotts and overall good times in Europe, Africa and Asia continue, as major international problems stemming from the publication last Fall of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed in the Danish paper
Jyllands-Posten move into a third week. Also, the North American round-up of papers is in that published any of the cartoons and the final tally is extremely low.
Monday.
Tuesday.
Wednesday.
Thursday.
Friday.
2. Algerian cartoonist Ali Dilem
is sentenced to one year in jail for drawing cartoons of his country's president.
3. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's case against a magazine for publishing satirical cartoons is
thrown out of court.
Winners of the Week
The courts in Turkey, for their second decision in a row supporting an artist's right to satirize public figures.
Losers of the Week
The courts in Algeria, which keep sentencing artists and editors for what many countries see as fundamental rights to free expression.
Quote of the Week
"After doing embarrassing amounts of preparation, I totally forgot to call the Nerd Prom reservation line at the crack of dawn this morning."
-- Kelly Sue DeConnick, i
n a fine, summary statement on this month's industry irritant, getting one of the con-discounted rooms for this summer's San Diego Con.
a cartoon by Ali Dilem
posted 11:27 pm PST |
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