CR Week In Review



Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, December 10 to December 16, 2005:

1. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists enjoys a surge in traffic and editorials for its Black Ink Monday promotion; the Tulsa World uses the occasion to announce its hiring for a staff position.

2. Marvel settles lawsuit with NCSoft and Cryptic Studios over City of Heroes on-line role-playing game. This clears the way its own on-line effort, continues a streak of aggressive litigation, and pushes forward a notion of superheroes defined by the sum total of their qualities rather than a costume and name.

3. A Turkish court of appeal rejects a large fine against a cartoonist who dared to draw Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a horse, weakening for a moment Erdogan's use of the court as a control measure over free expression.

Winner of the Week
Marvel, for getting into a settlement with a lawsuit that conventional wisdom (such as it is) characterized as completely baseless, and launching a new on-line comics initiative.

Loser of the Week
Enoch Teye Mensah, the politican in Ghana who sued cartoonist Akosua for another animal depiction.

Quote of the Week
"I tried drawing on a computer once and I felt as if I was back in kindergarten doing finger paints. I had absolutely no control, and it scared the hell out of me." -- Bill Griffith on a Washington Post chat talking about why the old ways may be best, at least for him.

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