CR Week In Review



Top Stories
The week's most important comics-related news stories, December 24 to December 30, 2005:

1. Robert Crumb sues Amazon.com, a fairly straightforward news story in a week -- well, Marvel's bankruptcy a decade ago aside -- not known for the straightforward news story.

2. Marvel strikes a deal with a newspaper insert company for Spider-Man inserts.

3. Writer Kurt Busiek signs an exclusivity deal with DC, shining a spotlight on how this fits into the ongoing DC Vs. Marvel battles and what exclusivity agreements mean generally.

Winners of the Week
Fans of Best-Of Lists. You can't turn around without being smacked in the face by a best-of list.

Loser of the Week
Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan, whose minor defeat in a Turkish court of appeals over a cartoon he didn't like made the international wire services including AP, including a much wider reproduction of the offending cartoon than ever would have taken place had he not sued.

Quote of the Week
"Oh, god. No. This is every conversation I've seen on the web in the last eight years."
-- Writer Warren Ellis shutting down an odd, retro and slightly sad thread at his Engine chat site about how comics can become more mainstream.

portion of the original Robert Crumb "Keep on Truckin'" sheet
 
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