CR Week In Review



Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, December 3 to December 9, 2005:

1. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists calls for a "Black Monday" of newspaper business-related cartoons to spotlight the cutting of editorial staff cartoonists. Related stories abound.

2. European Prize Season Heats Up: ACBD Prize, Prix Goscinny, Angouleme Festival Nominations.

3. Bill Jemas back to comics publishing.

Winner of the Week
South African cartoonist Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro, who won $115,000-plus via a major cultural prize.

Loser of the Week
Marvel -- although it's no great hit in the larger scheme of things, their Stephen King project gets moved back to 2007; more worryingly, King seems 4.5 percent less directly involved in the project's creation with every news cycle.

Quote of the Week
"All these cartoonists are very well paid but they're too cheap to go out and buy themselves a decent chair to sit on while they draw." -- A cartoonist party "insider" on why a chair is given away to the UK press political cartoonist of the year.

Jiro Taniguchi's book is one of many up for the public prize at Angouleme.
 
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