CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from October 13 to October 19, 2012:

1. Warner Bros/DC Comics wins a key victory against the Shuster Family in the ongoing legal struggles over elements of the Superman copyright.

2. Richard Thompson has surgery as treatment; draws the whole while.

3. NYCC ends the mainstream-oriented comics convention calendar year with a bunch of mainstream-oriented publishing news.

Winners Of The Week
Your 2012 Prism Queer Grant award recipients.

Loser Of The Week
The Myanmar military official who basically issued a scary warning to one of his country's newspapers.

Quote Of The Week
"I might just be in a bubble, but here's the trouble I see with the independent comics: We're the only guys -- maybe there's a couple of others -- that put out comics out on a regular basis. Everyone else puts them out five to 10 years [apart] now. It's just gotten really bad. So that's why there's no beachhead, no swell of indie comics that people are making a big deal about. But at the same time, the mainstream seems to be surviving on the fact that there's great, big Hollywood movies based on the products, and the actual comics aren't a big deal anymore. That's what I see." -- Gilbert Hernandez, who along with his brothers Jaime and Mario spent the last weekend at APE on the final stop on a three-con 30 Years Of Love And Rockets mini-tour.


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today's cover is from the small-press and independent comics scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and is by Dylan Williams; it was a great honor this week to donate a few comics to his collection at OSU, and I hope you'll consider joining me

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