CR Week In Review



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The week's most important comics-related news stories, March 26 to April 1, 2005:

1. A brutal week for diversity of opinion, viewpoint and format on the newspaper comics page, as E&P announces that major female editorial cartoonists have enjoyed an upswing of zero percent, King Features and Scott Bateman terminate their relationship, one paper drops a cartoon because it might potentially upset readers, and another paper runs a cartoon and then apologizes for doing so.

2. DC Comics announces one of those semi-dubious sell-outs of a low-priced one-shot. Blue Beetle is killed in this one, which in the puffed-up DC cosmology of characters and outcomes means a cosmic event has begun which will be dealt with in a forthcoming mini-series, priming the pump for a depressing summer's season of entertainment where icons of childhood wonder and fun once again Bradysomething their way through ugly pageants of death and frequent, clumsy assertions of their general importance. It should do extremely well.

3. Buenaventura Press, potential player in the arts-alternative portion of the market, announces its first comics-publication releases.

Winner of the Week
Veteran editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett, who in a terrible week for newspaper comics and cartoons in general won the Fischetti award.

Loser of the Week
Ali Farzat, work seen above, who according to a profile by the BBC can't get his work published because of a climate of fear that grips his country's newspapers.

Quote of the Week
"Bluto was and is hip, hot, and happenin'." -- Charlie Brilvitch, proponent of a statue in the Popeye bad guy's honor.
 
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