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The week's most important comics-related news stories, May 21 to May 27, 2005:

1. Cartoonist Ali Dilem found guilty in Algeria and fined for making a cartoon about that country's president. His editor is sentenced in absentia to jail time for running the cartoon.

2. Rich Johnston breaks news that Alan Moore will leave DC after current cycle of projects near completion are completed. A third volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is now planned for co-publishing by Knockabout and Top Shelf.

3. The CBLDF releases word of movement in the Gordon Lee case. Lawyers file motions to dismiss on behalf of the Rome, Georgia retailer.



Winners of the Week
Arnold Drake and Jerry Siegel, inaugural recipients of the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. Pictured: cover to a Drake-scripted issue of Doom Patrol.

Loser of the Week
Crossgen -- the approval of a liquidation plan lays bare how short the company fell of profitability as originally conceived.

Quote of the Week
"It was imbecilic; it had plot holes you couldn't have got away with in Whizzer And Chips in the nineteen sixties. Plot holes no one had noticed." -- Alan Moore's appraisal of the script he'd seen for the forthcoming film version of V For Vendetta.
 
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