Killed Cartoons book killed cartoons
Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist, writes about some irony regarding the newly published “Killed Cartoons” in which the publisher killed…
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William Woodward cartoon incites allegations of racism
Mike Rhode, over at the ComicsDC blog noticed an article in the Washington Post about a cartoon by William Woodward…
Funky Winkerbean depiction of IED blowing up american soldier generates angry response
Friday’s Funky Winkerbean generated an angry response in two communities that ran Tom Batiuk’s feature. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA) received…
Another case of plagiarism?
Has editorial cartoon plagiarism raised it’s ugly head again? Gawker.com – “a daily Manhattan media news and gossip blog” (which…
Randy Bish ticks off 41,000 Purple Heart recipients
Randy Bish, editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburg Tribune-Review, is scrambling to find 41,000 donuts to entertain the same number of…
Nevada politician infringing on Peanuts copyright
Charlie Brown is running for congress. No, this isn’t a story about a silly write-in campaign, but a real life…
Breeden admits to only one case of plagiarism
Kathleen Breeden, the cartoonist at the center of case of plagiarism at Harvard, has come out saying that only one…
Cartoonists respond to the copying Crimson cartoonist (UPDATED)
The story that I covered yesterday regarding the Harvard Crimson editorial cartoonist Kathleen Breeden that was fired for alleged plagiarism…
Harvard editorial cartoonist accused of plagiarism (UPDATED)
The Harvard Crimson’s editorial cartoonist, Kathleen Breeden’s editorial cartoons are coming under scrutiny for possible plagiarism. An unnamed individual informed the the newspaper Saturday and pointed out the similarities of her work with those on Cagle.com. In question are four cartoons published on September 22nd and October. 11, 18 and 25th.
Rick Stromoski slams comic polls
NCS President Rick Stromski took issue with the Hartford Courant’s latest cartoon poll that I mentioned last Friday and wrote a letter to the editor arguing that the polls were flawed and that editors ought select the comic strips themselves.
Newspaper editor has beef with King Features’s online DailyINK
According to Editor & Publisher, Dean Miller, executive editor of The Post Register in Idaho Falls, sent a letter to…
Cavalier Daily cartoonist apologizes for cartoon
I reported last week of a University of Virginia student who had two highly controversial cartoons published in the student paper – the Cavalier Daily. The cartoonist has issued an apology and has asked that the cartoons be removed from the paper’s web site.
College cartoon insinuating Jesus’ mother had an STD creating controversy
Over at the University of Virginia, there is a religious cartoon controversy brewing. Two comics ran on the 23rd and 24th of August – the first depicting the Crucifixion with a parabolic graph superimposed over Christ and the second features dialog between Mary and Joseph about an immaculately transmitted rash.
International Herald Tribune runs banned Non Sequitur after all
According to Dave Astor at E&P, the International Herald Tribune ran last weeks banned Non Sequitur by accident. Apparently a production editor goofed up and printed the original Non Sequitur instead of the replacement one it had received from Universal Press.
This Friday’s Non Sequitur to be swapped out in International Herald Tribune (UPDATE)
The International Herald Tribune (IHT) wants to substitute this Friday’s Non Sequtuir according to E&P. The cartoon in question pokes fun of Ann Coulter who is wearing a burqa after getting everything she’s ever wished for (the non-existence of liberals being one of those things).