Comments on: Sean Delonas catches flack for duplicating self

By: Alexander DeGrate

Alexander DeGrate — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:03:39 +0000

I give the New York Post about 3 more years to survive until they ultimately become “TOAST”. Today marks the last time I will EVER read or have anything to do with this piece of trash they call The New York Post!

By: Alexander DeGrate

Alexander DeGrate — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:59:16 +0000

I thought the monkey in that cartoon looked a lot like Rush Limbaugh.

By: E. Carroll

E. Carroll — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:57:53 +0000

Does anyone know what the cartoonist looks like? I looked for a picture, but couldn’t find one. Judging by his frequent depiction of distorted body parts, I wonder what he looks like himself.

By: Mickey Smith

Mickey Smith — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:45:13 +0000

I’ve never heard of this man before all this dreadful chimp cartoon business happened today. And having researched a backlog of his work, I now know why I’ve never heard of him. He’s awful. Just awful.

By: B.G.Head

B.G.Head — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:35:04 +0000

Loco Moco is right but didn’t go far enough. Plagiarizing one’s own work and getting paid for it is essentially a form of fraud. It also displays a clear proclivity for dishonest behavior. Were we to review all of Delonas’ work, would it reveal theft from others as well? It wouldn’t surprise me. At least, this behavior exposes Delonas as a cheap hack, but then that is obvious from the content of his work, most especially his current chimpanzee junk.

As for this twit J.G. Moore, perhaps this person should take an ethics class in order to better understand the issue, and in the meantime spare us the lightweight babble.

By: Mini Richards

Mini Richards — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:18:45 +0000

The attempt to make a so called cartoon by Sean Delones is sickening to say the least. What a twisted, cinical piece of trash for all Americans to see when they open up the paper hoping to read and see images that will give them a lift in these troubling times. Sean you have a gift and I see you have chosen to use it to WOUND when you could use it to lift up those who are truly suffering. Such a waste but isn’t that what got us in this mess…people very much like you. It’s no wonder that newspapers are having a hard time surviving when they publish for the greed driven only.

By: Loco Moco

Loco Moco — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:19:51 +0000

David Renwick’s comment from a month ago is particularly and weirdly apropos today, given the latest uproar about Delomas’ “monkey” cartoon!

On the original offense — those who say “what’s the problem, it’s his own work” are missing the point. Self-plagiarism is a sin in journalism just like plagiarizing others. Journalists and cartoonists get paid for submitting new work, not retreads.

Unfortunately, comic-strip writers/artists sometimes do the very same thing and most often get away with it. If you’ve run out of creative ideas, go work for Mickey D’s. Want fries with that?

By: David Renwick

David Renwick — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:55:30 +0000

In his memoir “Things I Didn’t Know,” Robert Hughes (Art Critic for Time magazine) referred to Sean Delonas’ “work” as” ill-drawn….., with ….clumsy hatching , and Neanderthal wit.”
I agree, and the publisher Murdoch, hasn’t paid peanuts to get this monkey.

David Renwick
Christchurch
New Zealand

By: Mllt Priggee

Mllt Priggee — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:49:03 +0000

To paraphrase Andy Warhol….cartooning is anything you can get away with.

By: John Read

John Read — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:04:58 +0000

I have to agree with Matt, J.G. If Sean Delonas had cartoonist’s block that day, why not let The Post run another cartoonist’s original cartoon in the place of his poorly-disquised rerun?