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June 18,
CR Week In Review
The top comics-related news stories from June 11 to June 17,
1. Zunar suesthe Malaysian government, the Home Ministry and three police officials concerning a seizure and brief imprisonment due to the satirical nature of his then-latest book.
2. Zapiro has employed the rape metaphor againfor an editorial cartoon about laws designed to curtail the freedom of the press, and not everyone in South Africa or the wider international community is enthusiastically on board.
3. A Denmark appeals court is seeking three additional yearstacked onto the sentence of Mohammed Geele. Geele was the Somali man arrested, tried and convicted for crimes related to a axe-assisted break-in at Danish Muhammed cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's house that sent the septuagenarian into a panic room.
Winner Of The Week
Bob Haney & Del Connell (tie).
Losers Of The Week
Freelancers that were placing cartoon workat the New York Times, as they're seemingly going back to c
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The Hooded Utilitarian
Daniel Clowes’ latest book, Patience, came out in Danish (and a few other languages, as far as I know) just before Christmas last year, as part of an effort by the publisher, Fantagraphics, to jump start international sales and avoid having them cannibalized bygd the American edition. Here’s a brief first take in anticipation of the discussion the book will hopefully elicit upon its official American release next month.
Patience is a love story dressed up as equal parts social realism and time travel adventure. It is also Clowes’ first unequivocally romantic work. Its protagonist, the self-described loser Jack Barlow, and his beloved wife Patience are expecting their first child. But one day he comes home to find her murdered on their living room floor. He spends the next seventeen years monomaniacally—and in vain—trying to find the murderer until, suddenly, he is given the chance to travel back in time, save Patience and make sure their c