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The week's most important comics-related news stories, December 17 to December 23, 2005:

1. Manga's big year in the French market confirmed by Gilles Ratier's detailed sales report. One child out of two between ages of 9 and 13 reads manga. France has gone from 19 volumes published in 1994 to 269 in 2001 to 754 last year to 1142 in 2005, 42.28 percent of the total French album output.

2. Charges simmering in fan circles that Slam Dunk creator Takehiko Inoue copied from basketball action photo will be further exposed via a piece in a newsstand magazine's January issue.

3. Dabel Brothers Studio leaves the Alias publishing umbrella in passive-agressive fashion: Alias is released from all contracts without dispute, but the original statements from studio in publisher contain statements that seem to want to give voice to that entity's view on why the relationship didn't work without looking bad for doing so.

Winner of the Week
I'll go out on a limb and say the French manga fan.

Loser of the Week
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, criticized for his handling of a newspaper doing several Mohammed cartoons, causing consternation and death threats.
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Quote of the Week
"Here's wishing every girl and boy,
A day that's bright with Christmas joy,
A home that's filled with love and mirth,
A long life, filled with PEACE ON EARTH!"
-- Santa Claus Funnies #2, 1943

Gilles Ratier points out that once you get past the sales of the latest Asterix book, the sales charts could be said to be dominated by French volumes of manga like this one from the Naruto series.
 
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