CR Week in Review



Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, November 26 to December 2, 2005:

1. Four of seven charges dismissed by prosecutors in the Gordon Lee case.

2. We now know how much a cartoonist is worth: group in Pakistan issues $8200 offer for head of offending cartoonist submitting cartoons with depictions of Mohammed in a Denmark newspaper (it was actually a series of cartoonists; fundamentalists are notoriously bad at detail work).

3. No Punches Pulled Week: Doonesbury hits hard at President Bush on frat hazing/torture connections; Signe Wilkinson hits Philadelphia even harder for black on black violence.

Winner of the Week
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund: four charges gone, including both of the felony charges.

Loser of the Week
Orlando's MegaCon, as Wizard has now entered into partnership with the New York City Comic-Con running on the same date.

Quote of the Week
"I thought that since nobody's really written anything interesting about EC Comics I'd write about what it was like being a kid who was a fan of them. So I submitted to the Comic Buyer's Guide and they turned me down. [laughs] Then I sent it to the Comics Journal, I waited a few months and I called them up, and they said 'We never got your submission' so I resubmitted it and waited a few months. I called them back and they said 'We never got your submission.' So I sent it to them a third time and they said 'oh, we're going to print it.' Then they called me back a couple months later and they said 'Look, the printer lost your article.' So when I stopped laughing I sent them another copy and they published it. -- Bob Levin at Suicide Girls on how to forge a relationship with a comics publisher. It's funny because it's true.
 
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