CR Week In Review



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The week's most important comics-related news stories, February 19 to February 25, 2005:

1. Turkish cartoonists unite in objection to a legal ruling against one of their own for a cartoon depicting the Prime Minister, a man who has engendered some journalistic reforms but routinely sues the press.

2. Essayist and author Hunter S. Thompson, an icon of late 20th century popular culture and an influential figure in comics circles, dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound.

3. Little Sisters loses access to funding with which the Vancouver store planned to fight Canadian Customs concerning its practice of keeping certain books from entering that country.

Winner of the Week
Creators, for its eyebrow-raising showing on a recent awards nominee list.

Loser of the Week
Print, given a vote of no-confidence by its current caretakers.

Quote of the Week
"Someone asked what we were up to. 'Oh, just looking at the boats,' said Hunter. Then he whispered: 'We've got to get out of here Ralph, we must flee. We've failed. We've failed, Ralph.' He set off two distress flares in the harbour and set fire to some boats to cause a distraction so we could get away, which meant going to a coffee bar and pretending we were ordinary people." -- Illustrator Ralph Steadman in The Guardian, on working with Hunter S. Thompson.

Cartoon from Chip Bok, one of Creators' editorial cartoonists.
 
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