Charlie Hebdo, The French satirical magazine, was petro bombed last night. The BBC reports that the offices were destroyed a day after the magazine announced the Prophet Muhammad would be its editor-in-chief in the next issue and ran a caricature of the Prophet. The issue was supposed to celebrate the victory of the recent Tunisian […]
As promised by the Urban Tulsa publisher, Keith Skrzypczak, today’s edition contains the formal response from the paper regarding the accusations of plagiarism by its cartoonist David Simpson. Noted is the news that Simpson has stated that he is retiring from editorial cartooning. Dave Simpson, an award-winning, nationally syndicated former editorial cartoonist with the erstwhile […]
Susie MacNelly, Jeff’s widow, has written the following which I’m sharing with her permission: Mike Peters so accurately described David Simpson as a cartoon kleptomaniac. Tulsa must be in a black hole with different journalistic ethics because neither Simpson nor his editor/publisher seem repentant. His editor wanted me to write the retraction….I declined. Mr. Simpson’s […]
Jeff MacNelly’s widow, Susie MacNelly, received an apology letter from the now former Urban Tulsa editorial cartoonist David Simpson admitting he “stole” Jeff’s Jimmy Carter cartoon that was brought to light last week. With her permission, I’m sharing that letter. Here is the original letter: Dear Susan: I’m very sorry that I stole Jeff’s Carter […]
ABTech profiles one of their alum, Chris Sparks, who is leading the Team Cul de Sac project to raise money for Parkinsons Disease research. The Cul de Sac project solicited original art from notable cartoonists to be auctioned off as well as sell a book collection of the art that is due out next spring. […]