CR Week in Review



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The week's most important comics-related news stories, August 13 to August 19, 2005:

1. Mort Walker changes his museum's name and announces move to New York City's Empire State Building.

2. The Center for Cartoon Studies announces that The Charles Schulz estate is funding the school's library, a rare happy news event.

3. Sales figures for July show a lot of activity at the the top of the chart, big-company dominance that would have pleased Jim Shooter back in the day, and a small overall boost because of the furious top-of-the-charts activity that has some worried about the healthy of lower backlist items and regular series.

Winners of the Week
Fans of 1940s cartoonists, as a new edition of Bill Mauldin's war comics and a recovered, later children's book from Crockett Johnson are announced.

Loser of the Week
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art -- no matter how you spin it, a major cartoon museum moving onto your turf with accelerated plans involving major real estate can't be good news. It's far from a death knell, either, but still.

Quote of the Week
"The comics that use digital technology to break out of their frozen boxes are really more like animated cartoons. And those that don't are just like the old, pre-digital ones, without the allure of the printed page and with a few added headaches for reader and creator alike." -- Sarah Boxer on Webcomics in the New York Times, an article described as a "perky little hatchet job" by Scott McCloud.

A faraway glimpse of the Crockett Johnson work from the publisher's web site.
 
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