Westergaard video brings threats to teen creator
A 17 year-old teen girl created a video based on Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” music video that has resulted in…
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Observer student assistant editor resigns
Last Friday I reported that The Observer, an independent student run paper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s, apologized for…
The Observer apologizes for anti-gay cartoon
The Observer, an independent college paper serving the Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s campuses has issued an apology for allowing…
Guarding Westergaard costing Denmark $3.8 million
Kurt Westergaard, the most famous of the Mohammad cartoon creators, has been under Danish police protection for the last couple…
Kurt Westergaard news round up
Title: Kurt Westergaard is in hiding again. That’s according to NPR who interviewed after the New Year’s Day attack on…
AAEC responds to latest attacks on Westergaard
In the wake of the recent attacks on Kurt Westergaard, The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has reissued their statement…
Man won’t be charged for anti-Muslim cartoons
A cartoonist who posted cartoons picturing the Prophet Muhammad engaged in bestiality and other obscene images in front of a…
Fiore, NPR upset conservative “Tea Partiers”
An animated editorial cartoon by Mark Fiore has the conservative blogosphere buzzing and livid at National Public Radio for posting…
Ill-timed Jumpstart angers grieving communities
Last Friday’s Jump Startby Robb Armstrong was one of a continuing story-line that includes an officer being shot has angered…
Aunt Jemima cartoon causing ruckus in Ohio
The Cleveland Call and Post, an African American newspaper, ran a cartoon on the front page depicting State Senator Nina…
Yale to be chastised by 16 organizations
The Yale Daily News is reporting that 16 organizations, including American Civil Liberties Union, the American Society of Journalists and…
Plot to kill Westergaard expands to Pakistan
The two Chicago area men arrested last month who were allegedly plotting to kill Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard had ties…
Mallard Fillmore protested at Newsday
About 20 people picketed the offices of Newsday yesterday protesting the publishing of a Mallard Fillmore cartoon last Sunday and…
Three graphic novel news items of interest
Three stories caught my eye regarding graphic novels and libraries. The good news is that the Milford public Library (NJ)…
Duke University publishes book about Mohammad cartoons
Voltaire Press at Duke University has published a book “Muhammad: The "Banned" Images” by Dr. Gary Hull that includes reprinting…