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CR Week In Review

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The top comics-related news stories from June 27 to July 3, 2009:

1. Honduran cartoonist Allan McDonald detained and then released, his cartoons destroyed.

2. BN Duncan, Weirdo contributor and mainstay of the Berkeley street and publishing scenes, passes away.

3. Harvey Awards nominations are announced, leaving many suspicious of the Awards' ability to sustain a reasonable number of voters during its nominations process.

Winner Of The Week
Ruben Bolling

Loser Of The Week
Watchmen, because it's funny.

Quote Of The Week
"Wouldn't it be better if the Lone Ranger was really the bearer of some kind of elemental 'Ranger totem' or something?"-- Matt Maxwell

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today's cover is from one of the great publications of the underground comix era

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Happy 41st Birthday, Lauren McCubbin!

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Happy 32nd Birthday, David Petersen!

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Your Say, Our Platform: LOC Highlights

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* Steven Gettis On CR's Sunday Interview With Trina Robbins (7/3/09)
* Craig Yoe On CR's Sunday Interview With Trina Robbins (7/3/09)
* Joe Keatinge's Open Letter On The Harvey Award Nominations (7/1/09)
* Kendall Clark On Latest Round Of Xeric Recipients (PR) (6/30/09)
* Dan Merritt On Neil Swaab At The Green Brain Comics Store In Dearborn, Michigan (PR) (6/28/09)
* Colleen Frakes On Book Release Party In White River 070309 (PR) (6/28/09)

CompuServe, 1969-2009?

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I'm not going to pretend I can figure out this cascade of dates, but it seems that in some significant fashion the embers of what was once with early AOL (its eventual buyer, I think... maybe) one of the initial, commercial places on the Internet a lot of folks talked about comics have had water poured over them. I remember well the golden afternoons of 1994, when we crowded around our office's single linked-up computer to insult each others' children and to hash out which person tangential to comics was most dishonored by the Journal and in what way and why. Seriously, that old Comics and I think Animation forum was the least friendly place to alternative comics in the entire world. It was like going to a bar where within the first 30 seconds a bouncer would punch you square in the face. It was like a suggestion box people could poop in. This is sort of what it was like, except that you couldn't run away. Participation on the CompuServe forum led to at least TCJ's more general on-line presence, in the sense of Gilligan and the Skipper building a raft to get all the castaways off the island. It probably also drove a lot of other on-line efforts in a much more benign fashion. I will spend the waning hours of this getaway day thinking of Pat O'Neill and Don Labriola.

Friday Distraction: Lengthy Lone Wolf And Cub Review Series

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Scenes From The AAEC Convention

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via Mr. Cagle, who holds the camera

Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

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There's only one of these this time out: an invitation related the Danish Cartoons Controversy is cited as one of the reasons for the departure of a director and staff from a high-profile journalist protection agency in Qatar. Longtime RSF head Robert Menard and his staff have left the Doha-based advocacy and funds-dispensing group after what they claim is increased pressure from the government of Qatar. Critics of Menard say he never quite understood how to function within the conservative nation, and cite Menards decision to let Muhammed cartoon publishers Jyllands-Posten send staffers to attend a World Press Freedom day sponsored by the center.

Go, Look: Ingemar Nystrom

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