FFF Results Post #439—Year In News

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five News Stories Important To Comics In 2015." This is how they responded.

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Buzz Dixon

1. The Charlie Hebdo Murders (I concur with this one's placement)
2. Valarie D'Orazio walks away from comics media
3. Superheroes have become the new dominant movie genre but ...
4. ... despite that, One Piece is the best selling comic EVER (pictured)
5. New Peanuts movie is refreshingly non-suckalicious

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Michael Dooley

1. Malaysian political cartoonist Zulkifee Anwar Alhaque (Zunar) has been charged with nine counts of sedition and faces up to 43 years imprisonment for his satirical cartoons critical of government leadership.
2. Iranian political cartoonist Atena Farghadani was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for her peaceful activist protest as well as for drawing satirical cartoons critical of government legislators. (pictured)
3. Thai political cartoonist Sakda Sae Iao (Sia) was detained by government agents for three days of "attitude adjustment" and threatened with legal action for his satirical cartoons critical of the Prime Minister.
4. Iranian journalist and cartoonist Hadi Heidari has been imprisoned by authorities after having drawn a cartoon in sympathy for Paris in the wake of recent terrorist attacks.
5. Reports now indicate that Syrian political cartoonist Akram Raslan was tortured to death in 2013 by government forces after having posted cartoons critical of the Assad regime on Facebook.

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Sean Kleefeld

1. The return of Milestone Comics
2. Ted Rall fired from LA Times over an his description of an incident with the LAPD
3. The return of Bloom County through Facebook (pictured)
4. The "Women in Comics" panel with no female panelists at Denver Comic Con
5. Sana Amanat named Marvel's Director of Content & Character Development

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Tom Spurgeon

1. The Charlie Hebdo Murders (pictured)
2. D+Q Transition
3. Zunar's Rolling Litigation Issues
4. DC Comics Moves To Burbank
5. Sweep At Ignatzes By Female Comic-Makers

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Michael Buntag

1. 12 people killed including four cartoonists in attack on Charlie Hebdo offices
2. Miles Morales joins the Marvel Universe (pictured)
3. Ms. Marvel wins Hugo Award during a very controversial year
4. Women comics creators triumph at 2015 Ignatz Awards
5. Ta-Nehisi Coates hired to write for Black Panther comic

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Oliver Ristau

1. Launch of Europe Comics
2. Stage adaption of Alisong Bechdel's Fun Home wins a Tony Award
3. A museum named after Erika Fuchs, translator of comic books, gets opened
4. Ariane Theiller, intern for French publisher Urban Comics, was killed during the Paris attacks
5. Shigeru Mizuki dies at 93 (pictured)

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Ethan Heitner

1. Charlie Hebdo murders
2. 110+ cartoonists and workers in the comics industry sign open letter telling comics industry "No Business As Usual with Israel" in support of boycott
3. Matt Bors and the Nib leave Medium.com
4. Ta-Nehisi Coates becomes 3rd MacArthur-certified "Genius" to make comics (pictured)
5. First festival of comics in Cairo, Egypt opens

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Tim O'Shea

* Nilah Magruder's M.F.K. Wins Inaugural Dwayne McDuffie Award (pictured)
* death of Roger Silfer
* University Of Chicago Announced It Acquired Daniel Clowes' Papers
* Words From A Mexican Political Cartoonist In Self-Exile Over Fears Of Extreme Violence
* Julia Wertz On Harassment

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Bryan Munn

1. Charlie Hebdo.
2. The ongoing persecution of cartoonists around the world.
3. Marvel and DC are billion-dollar companies that employ many people who are not cartoonists and still make comics that hundreds of thousands of people buy every week.
4. Image seems to be thriving. (pictured)
5. People read comics on computers and companies that provide this service make money. (i'm old.)

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thanks to all that participated

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