March 5, 2005
CR Week In Review
Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, February 26 to March 4, 2005:
1.
Turkey risks major political fall-out, including greater economic and political participation with western European nations, as its prime minister seemingly can't stop suing cartoonists who dare to draw about him.
2. Lawyers for both sides gear up for Superman/Superboy case;
Newsarama on the ball.
3. Tie: Marvel
expands distribution into bookstores, convenience stores/Newspapers
begin to drop episodes of strips like
The Boondocks as a matter of course, wth no major fall-out.
Winner of the Week
Marvel, for the bump of good publicity for the new distribution deals coming off the
stinkola performance of
Elektra.
Loser of the Week
DC, whose recent personnel moves can now, in the light of Marvel's announcements, be viewed by the cynical as if they're moving office furniture around while their major rival takes action, plus the PR minefeld that is potential legislation with the Siegels and Shusters looms on the horizon. Even manga fans
aren't happy with the company this week.
Quote of the Week
"It was about 11 pm on a Thursday, with my strips unwritten and due the next day, and instead of being in a healthy deadline panic, all I could think about was how my druid was about to hit level 20 and get the cat form ability. The strips pretty much wrote themselves at that point." -- Bill Amend, bravely letting the world how stay-at-home creative people really work,
in an interview on a plotline about the on-line role-playing game World of Warcraft in his newspaper strip
Foxtrot.
Selection from today's episode of The Boondocks
, which won't be appearing in some of its client papers.
posted 4:43 am PST |
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