CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from March 7 to March 13, 2015:

1. Yoshihiro Tatsumi passed away. He found a place within his chosen medium for a kind of story he wanted to tell, told those stories, named the expression and become one of its exemplars for the remaining decades of his life.

2. Roz Chast won the autiobiography category at the National Book Critics Circle Awards, a win for her much-lauded and much-nominated Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? and a big deal in terms of this being a traditional prose award.

3. Harassed locally, threatened internationally: Bonil's recent situation shines a light on what's facing too many of today's editorial cartoonists.

Winner Of The Week
Irwin Hasen. He lived a long and active life, one filled with a great deal of professional accomplishment. He's important to his chosen medium as a prolific creator in multiple forms, as an educator, as a personality and as a one of our last remaining, important links to the comics industry's first big surge in activity and interest. I didn't know him, so I can't tell you if he was happy, but he was described that way by a number of people with whom he came into public contact.

Losers Of The Week
Bonil's harassers. One imagines the death thread far more upsetting, but the harassment seems much more avoidable, particularly as the government agency in question is there to raise the level of the dialogue, not crush it all together.

Quote Of The Week
"The gekiga style caught on like wildfire." -- Ryan Holmberg's masterful Yoshihiro Tatsumi obituary.

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the comic image selected is from the brief but notable 1970s run of Seaboard/Atlas

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