Award news returns in a variety of forms, as Ben Jennings won The Low Trophy for the Political Cartoonist of the Year, Scout Comics announced the winners of 2021’s Script2Comic contest, nominees for the first batch of 2021’s Joe Shuster Awards were announced, Alison Bechdel received top-billing on Publisher’s Weekly’s annual Graphic Novel Critics Poll, and the Center for Cartoon Studies and The Beat opened submissions for 2022’s Cartoonist Studio Prize with a deadline of January 30th.Elsewhere in publishers and the legal system news, and, following last month’s shutting down of piracy site Mangabank, rightsholders can smell blood in the water and are pursuing operators of similar websites, as Shueisha has now applied for subpoenas against the administrators of 8 other domains involved in the hosting of copyright infringing materials. And if 2021 has taught us anything, it is that massive corporations can be trusted without reserve, eh, readers? Kicking off this week’s headlines with an update on the proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, currently subject to an antitrust suit filed by the Department of Justice in the US, as PRH and S&S filed a joint response to the DOJ saying that this merger to form the world’s first ‘mega-publisher’ would be good, actually, and that it in fact will not result in an unassailable position of control over the market. It absolutely will not stop… This week’s news. However, do not yet look fearfully out of your four-poster bed, in search of any passing spirits who might want to teach you the meaning of ethical capitalism! In the meantime, there’s the return of all your old favourites to keep you sated - auction news, distasteful NFT news, awards news, corporate moves news, lawsuit news - the gang’s all here, and just in time for the holidays! Well, we’ve almost done it - there’s just one set of 2021 flavoured links remaining after this week’s selection, which you can find below, and then we can all sit in silent contemplation of that which has befallen us, until 2022 begins the cycle anew. Features Benefits Of A Classical Education – This Week’s Links
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