Comments on: Coincidence or plagiarism for Jeff Stahler?

By: Carol Shelton

Carol Shelton — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:48:25 +0000

Isn’t it weird that Jeff Stahler, a liberal leaning cartoonist, was dumped and quickly replaced by a conservative cartoonist more fitting to the views of the Dispatch’s owners? Can you say: Set up?

By: Sergio Oscar

Sergio Oscar — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:10:21 +0000

“Coincidence” my foot…if talks like a duck and walks like a duck it can hardly be an Ostrich…!!!

By: Reuven Ben-Pesach

Reuven Ben-Pesach — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:59:26 +0000

Ironic that it was at the Columbus Dispatch where The New Yorker’s James Thurber got his start in journalism.

By: Saul D

Saul D — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:40:04 +0000

That irreverence, that wit I’d recognize it anywhere. Some charlatan has stolen a Ziggy and passed it off as his own. I can prove it. Quick Elaine, to my archives.

By: Dave W

Dave W — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:07:32 +0000

A light box is any kind of box with a glass pane and back lighting for tracing.

By: Keir Heath

Keir Heath — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:23:21 +0000

Any chance the word ‘lightbox’ could be defined so others can understand the reference?

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:18:10 +0000

I’m sure I could write a cartoon that I thought was original but that was just a remembered cartoon, especially one from many years before. My memory is that bad. That could explain the “medium-sized pile” cartoon. But Stahler only offered the explanation of coincidence.

By: Bob Englehart

Bob Englehart — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:26:21 +0000

This all looks to be true. Too bad. Jeff seemed to have original thoughts but I admit I didn’t follow him closely. If I had, I might have noticed. I’ve been subscribing to New Yorker since the 1970′s. Whoever caught him, good job.

By: p.susan

p.susan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:50:25 +0000

makes me think back on those seinfeld segments.
for the love of god, seems harsh to string up stahler so quickly.
really?
does the theory of relativity come to play here?

By: Larry Trepel

Larry Trepel — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:15:40 +0000

Could anyone possibly think “Your resume is in a medium-size pile in the center of the floor” is not directly copied from “Your novel is in a medium-size pile in the center of the floor”?
Or that it might be an unconscious recollection?
I think there’s more chance that O.J. was innocent.
Hope “Doing a Stahler” enters our lexicon.