Comments on: Plagiarism allegations hit Bill Day in closing days of fundraising campaign

By: T. Brian Kelly

T. Brian Kelly — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:13:21 +0000

It’s a lift, pure and simple. I don’t even like the new gun. It looks like Wall-E with an overgrown phallus.

By: Donald Rex Jr.

Donald Rex Jr. — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:24:25 +0000

I reckon the content of the cartoon in question, at a time when its subject is being hotly debated in government and media of all sorts is the origin of of this non issue.

By: Zack Fowler

Zack Fowler — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:08:14 +0000

If any clients of Cagle are willing to speak to me regarding this matter, I will be happy to grant them statements of non-liability. My e-mail can be found on my website. Thank you.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:43:33 +0000

oops… double tap. LOL

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:41:54 +0000

@Joseph Garcin

Type “pagiarism” on this site’s search option and there are over 30 articles dating back years. Alan is a good person and does a great job, this is the BEST site for cartoonists. He also just lost his dad, so try to show some sensitivity.

P.S. Trolling is bad for your health.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:32:18 +0000

@Joseph Garcin

Type in “plagiarism” in the search option on this site and there are over 30 articles about plagiarism dating back years. Alan is a good person and does a great job, this is the BEST site for cartoonists. He also just lost his dad, so try to show some sensitivity. Also trolling is bad for your health.

By: JP Trostle

JP Trostle — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:22:22 +0000

That’s fine, but the term is silly. (And I’m being generous here. It’s a misnomer at best, a lame euphemism at worst — one that immediately calls to mind that catholic standby, “self-abuse.”)

By: Matt Bors

Matt Bors — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:04:02 +0000

It’s re-purposing old work and presenting it as new to someone who thinks they are paying for new work. It’s actually a thing and doing it in academia and journalism is considered an ethical breach. You can parse it 100 ways and find all sorts of caveats, but re-issuing the same cartoons over and over and over is incredibly lazy and reflects poorly on the field. In fact, that more cartoonists don’t understand that also reflects poorly on the field.

By: Bob Buethe

Bob Buethe — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:07:35 +0000

“Self-plagiarism?” Plagiarism is defined as taking credit for someone else’s work. Self-plagiarism is just — I don’t know — taking credit for your own work?

By: Kelly McNutt

Kelly McNutt — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:27:14 +0000

gan golan: “…the fact that Hill traced the art as a shortcut when he can draw a better gun on his own is just plain lazy…”

Gan, he didn’t trace it, he resized it in Photoshop and took off the front sight. I tested it out with the two images and the resizing took less than thirty seconds.